Thanks Nick! Those are great directions and I like those approaches.
**--** Steve
On Aug 28, 6:54 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
