Question

for example I have the following structure:

<div class="parent">  
    <div>1st child</div>  
    <div>2nd child</div>  
    <div>3rd child</div>  
    <div>4th child</div>  
</div>

all I want is to have the text of all the children of the parent div as items of an array.
the jQuery solution is preferred.

Answer 1

var a = $(".parent").children().map(function() { return $(this).text(); });