Also found this technique, which does a decent job of returning
orphaned text, and could probably be adapted to your needs:
newObj = $('.container');
newObj.children().remove();
newObj.text(); // returns orphaned text node.
On Aug 28, 12:30 pm, Steven Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I develop and host wikis where users enter free-form text, and my
> server-side parsers create WISIWYG HTML from this.
>
> Of course, users can, and do, submit almost anything, and on the
> server-side I do a pretty good job of marking it up properly. But
> addressing edge-cases makes the server-side parsing increasingly
> heavy.
>
> One such edge case is islands of text that are not in any tag other
> than the global containing DIV. Like this:
>
> <div class="container">
> <h3>I am text within a tag</h3>
> I am a text island child of the "container" div wrapper. <--- My
> edge case
> <p>I am also text within a tag</p>
> </div>
>
> QUESTION: Using jQuery, how would you select orphan text inside a DIV
> in order to $.wrap() it, say, in a "<p>" tag?
>
> I'm thinking I could ask the client browsers to address some of these
> edge-cases for me.
>
> Ideas? Something like $
> (".container").textFragmentsNotInsideAnyOtherTag()
>
> **--** Steve
