hi Joe, thanks for your comment
If you look closer, you can see that the text is not actually in the
div element. i basically need to select the text after that node:
<div>
<div tln=xxx></div>
Some text
<div tln=xxx></div>
some more text
<div tln=xxx3></div>
even more text
</div>
So that wouldnt work
On May 5, 2:06 pm, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $("#tln21').text();
>
> This will return the text associated with id="tln21".
>
> http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/text
>
> Joe
>
> www.subprint.com
>
> On May 5, 2:34 pm, darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody, new member here.
>
> > I have a project with the following snipped of code:
>
> > =====start html=====
> > <div class="line">
> > <div name="tln4" id="tln4" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>As I remember, Adam, it was upon
> > this fashion
> > <div name="tln5" id="tln5" class="ln
> > tln">5</div>bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand
> > <div name="tln6" id="tln6" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>crowns, and, as thou say'st,
> > charged my brother,
> > <div name="tln7" id="tln7" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>on his blessing, to breed me well;
> > and
> > <div name="tln8" id="tln8" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>there begins my sadness. My
> > brother Jaques he keeps
> > <div name="tln9" id="tln9" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>at school, and report speaks
> > goldenly of his profit.
> > <div name="tln10" id="tln10" class="ln
> > tln">10</div>For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to
> > speak
> > <div name="tln11" id="tln11" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>more properly, stays me here at
> > home unkept; for call
> > <div name="tln12" id="tln12" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>you that "keeping" for a gentleman
> > of my birth that differs
> > <div name="tln13" id="tln13" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>not from the stalling of an ox?
> > His horses are bred
> > <div name="tln14" id="tln14" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>better, for, besides that they are
> > fair with their feeding,
> > <div name="tln15" id="tln15" class="ln
> > tln">15</div>they are taught their man�ge, and to that end riders
> > <div name="tln16" id="tln16" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>dearly hired; but I, his brother,
> > gain nothing under
> > <div name="tln17" id="tln17" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>him but growth, for the which his
> > animals on his
> > <div name="tln18" id="tln18" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>dunghills are as much bound to him
> > as I. Besides this nothing
> > <div name="tln19" id="tln19" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>that he so plentifully gives me,
> > the something that
> > <div name="tln20" id="tln20" class="ln
> > tln">20</div>nature gave me his countenance seems to take from
> > <div name="tln21" id="tln21" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>me. He lets me feed with his
> > hinds, bars me the
> > <div name="tln22" id="tln22" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>place of a brother, and as much as
> > in him lies, mines my
> > <div name="tln23" id="tln23" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>gentility with my education. This
> > is it, Adam, that
> > <div name="tln24" id="tln24" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>grieves me; and the spirit of my
> > father, which I think
> > <div name="tln25" id="tln25" class="ln
> > tln">25</div>is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude.
> > <div name="tln26" id="tln26" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>I will no longer endure it, though
> > yet I know no wise
> > <div name="tln27" id="tln27" class="ln
> > tln">
> > <!---->
> > </div>remedy how to avoid it.
> > <!---->
> > </div>
> > ====End HTML====
>
> > I have a short selection of text and a tln that the text should be
> > found near. I wan to use jquery to find this text node so that i can
> > manipulate it. My trouble is that I dont understand how the DOM
> > treats text nodes and element nodes.
>
> > So say for example i had the information (tln21) and a text snippet
> > "He lets me". What i tried was:
> > $("#tln21').siblings()
> > But this is only returning element siblings, not text siblings.
>
> > what can i do here? thanks for any help.
