Question

I have a structure like this:

<ul>   <li>text1</li>   <li>text2</li>   <li>text3</li> </ul> 

How do I use javascript or jQuery to get the text as an array?

['text1', 'text2', 'text3'] 

My plan after this is to assemble it into a string, probably using .join(', '), and get it in a format like this:

''text1', 'text2', 'text3'' 

Answer 1

var optionTexts = []; $('ul li').each(function() { optionTexts.push($(this).text()) }); 

…should do the trick. To get the final output you’re looking for, join() plus some concatenation will do nicely:

var quotedCSV = ''' + optionTexts.join('', '') + ''';