Just remove them if you need: $('span').text().replace('\n', '');
- ricardo On Feb 26, 10:12 am, AdrenalineJunkie <jason.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Im building a form parser(plugin) that will build a json object to a specific > design. One problem I am having involves how I render some html and > subsequently read that html. I am new to jQuery so please forgive me if I > am missing something simple. > > Consider the following snippet > <span>some text</span> > jQuery('span').text() yields 'some text' which is what I expect. > > now consider this html snippet > <span>some text > </span> > jQuery('span').text() yields 'some text\n' which is the source of my > problems with the json2 parser. > > My question is: > Is there another (best practice) way to get the text from the span (or other > tags) without the source line breaks? > > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/Issue-with-.text%28%29-and-line-breaks-tp222237... > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.