Question

Given this html:

<div id='tst1'>
  <div id='tst2'>tst2</div>
  <div id='tst3'>tst3</div>
  this is the text i want
</div>

How can I select for the ‘this is the text i want’ text? $('#tst1').text() gives me all of the text elements contained within tst1 (e.g. tst2, tst3, etc.).

I cannot depend on knowing the id’s of the contained wrapped elements (tst2, tst3 above), but I can depend on the text I want being listed last in the group.

Answer 1

Try this plz:

Working demo http://jsfiddle.net/We7mZ/ you can also look for innerHTMl and outterHTML

jQuery.fn.justtext = function() {

    return $(this).clone()
            .children()
            .remove()
            .end()
            .text();

};
alert($('#tst1').justtext());​