$("#testText").clone().remove('select').text()
won't work as the remove method doesn't remove the elements from the
jQuery object, just from the DOM. Here's how it should work:
var e = $("#testText").clone();
var select = e.find('select')[0];
e[0].removeChild(select);
alert( e.text() );
On Jan 12, 3:01 pm, kazuar <kazuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone?
>
>
>
> kazuar wrote:
>
> > hello, Im kinda new in jquery so maybe its a begginer question.
> > I have a page with a div containing some text and a combobox.
> > something like that
>
> > <div id="testText">
> > hello this is text and this is combobox
> > <select><option value='1'>1</option><option value='2'>2</option><option
> > value='3'>3</option></select></div>
>
> > I wrote a function which return the text from the div.
>
> > alert($('#testText').text());
>
> > My problem is that the function also return the text inside the combobox.
> > is there a way to filter out the combobox text?
>
> > the only workaround I can think of is to wrap my text in another div and
> > call its text.
> > This workaround will be a bit complicated for me because the text on my
> > page is dynamic and it can come after the input field or before the input
> > field so I just want to get the text inside the div without the input
> > fields text... (This only happens with combobox).
>
> > tnx,
> > Kazuar
>
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