@Danny, that's absolutely brilliant! I am very impressed with that
elegant solution. You've done me a kindness, and I appreciate that
very much.
**--** Steve
On Aug 28, 11:02 pm, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A quick plugin that I think will work for you:
> $.fn.orphans = function(){
> var ret = [];
> this.each(function(){$.each(this.childNodes, function() {if
> (this.nodeType == 3) ret.push(this)})});
> return $(ret);
> }
>
> You may want to test for empty text nodes though; change the if clause
> to (this.nodeType == 3 && $.trim(this.nodeValue))
>
> Danny
>
> On Aug 28, 2:30 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
