Question

I am trying to modify the text in the parent div from child div without changeing the child div contents.

I have

<div id='testDiv'>
    this is the test parent div
    <div id='child1'>
         lots of contents and child div
         ...................
    </div>
    more div/child div and contents...

</div>

in my jquery

$('child1 div a').click(function(){
    $('#testDiv').text('new text');  //this will remove the child1 div and all the contents inside testDiv
    //I want to replace 'this is the test parent div' text to 'newt text' 
})

Are there anyways to get this done? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

If you wrap the text in a span, it would be easier to change it:

$('#testDiv').contents()
             .filter(function(){return this.nodeType === 3})
             .wrap($('<span />',{'class':'test'}));

$('.test').text('new text');

FIDDLE

You could ofcourse unwrap the textnode once it’s changed if the span element causes some sort of problem?
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