This forum is about using jQuery, so our answers will usually be
focused on the best JQUERY way, not necessarily the BEST way.
On Jul 2, 11:51 am, ml1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to find out the "best practice" for getting the contents of
> one particular element. I know about the each() call.
>
> As I said I can use ways that seem not so efficient to get the
> contents of a single element but I want to know the best way.
>
> On Jul 1, 5:20 pm, Mike Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I am using jquery to parse some xml. I'm looking for the best
> > > practice to access an elements text contents.
>
> > > Let's say my xml looks like this:
>
> > > <items>
> > > <item>
> > > Hello world!
> > > </item
> > > <item>
> > > Goodnight moon!
> > > </item>
> > > <items>
>
> > > I can get a wrapped set of the elements this way: $('items > item',
> > > xml)
>
> > > And I can get the text of element 1 this way: $('items > item:eq(1)',
> > > xml).text()
>
> > > But how do I get the contents once I am directly accessing the element
> > > instead of the jquery object?
>
> > > In other words I'd like to do something like this: $('items > item',
> > > xml)[1].text(), but since the element that’s returned from the array
> > > [] doesn’t support text() how do I get it’s contents?
>
> > > I know I can wrap it in a second $ call, as in $($('items > item', xml)
> > > [1]).text() but that seems less than ideal.
>
> > Why do you need to access the element? Are you trying to get the
> > contents of each 'item'? If so, here's a way to do that:
>
> > $('items > item').each(i,o) {
> > // in this loop 'i' is the index of the loop iteration
> > // and 'o' is the object of the iteration (item element in this
> > case)
> > var $item = $(o); // could also do: var $item = $(this);
> > var txt = $item.text();
>
> > });
