jQuery can parse it and create the elements without adding them to the
DOM, then you can use Jack's suggestion:
var arr = [];
$(yourHTMLstring).find('li').each(function(){
arr.push( $(this).text() );
});
- ricardo
On Apr 6, 2:48 pm, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I had thought of the hidden div idea, and placing the html into
> that, then using .each(). I just wondered if there was a method to do
> it without adding the content to the DOM.
>
> On Apr 6, 10:35 am, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote:
>
> > d'oh, I just realized you have the html in a var...
>
> > I s'pose a "cheat" would be to add them to a hidden UL and then do
> > something like the below so you could take advantage of the .text() and
> > .each() method. Other than that, I'm not sure of the regex offhand to
> > split the LI's and parse out the inner text, sry.
>
> > - Jack
>
> > Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > > maybe something like this:
>
> > > var ar = [];
> > > $('#yourList li').each(function(){
> > > ar.push( $(this).text() );
> > > });
>
> > > - Jack
>
> > > Nic Hubbard wrote:
> > >> A better explanation:
>
> > >> I have a var that contains some html. Within that there are <li>
> > >> elements that I need to strip the text out of and put that into an
> > >> array. How would I do this?
>
> > >> I figure I could use each() and push(), but I am not sure how to do
> > >> this grabbing it from a var.
>
> > >> On Apr 5, 11:30 pm, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> What would be the correct method to create an array from the text
> > >>> inside <li> items?
>
> > >>> Is below, the best method, or would it even work?
>
> > >>> var array_test = $(#test li).text().makeArray();
