There are two alternatives:
$('#testText').contents(':not(select)')[0].nodeValue;
this one is unsupported but works too:
$('#testText').contents('[nodeType=3]')[0].nodeValue;
Notice that both will keep the linebreaks. if text() could handle
textnodes this would be much easier.
- ricardo
On Jan 12, 2:43 pm, kazuar <kazuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thank you all for your help.
> I guess I'll go with Bohdan's suggestion.
> I'll put the text inside another tag (probably p tag...).
>
> thanks again for all your help,
> if you think of anything else please let me know.
>
> Kazuar
>
>
>
> Bohdan Ganicky wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > maybe it could be easier to use the good old DOM in this scenario:
>
> > var textNode = $('#testText').get().firstChild; // now we have the
> > textNode
> > var textRaw = textNode.nodeValue; // now we have the text string with
> > all the white-space around
> > var text = $.trim(textRaw); // we strip the trailing white-space using
> > the jQuery trim function
>
> > Of course this works as expected only if the text you're looking for
> > is placed in the #testText's first textNode.
>
> > I'd recommend using more meaningful markup instead and putting the
> > text inside <p> element. ;)
>
> > --
> > Bohdan Ganicky
>
> > On Jan 12, 11:55 am, kazuar <kazuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> hello, Im kinda new in jquery so maybe its a begginer question.
> >> I have a page with a div containing some text and a combobox.
> >> something like that
>
> >> <div id="testText">
> >> hello this is text and this is combobox
> >> <select><option value='1'>1</option><option value='2'>2</option><option
> >> value='3'>3</option></select></div>
>
> >> I wrote a function which return the text from the div.
>
> >> alert($('#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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