Question

I have this here and like to see how to select the untagged element/text. I want to select the text “j.smith” in the following example:

<td class='dev'>
  <u>assigned</u>
  j.smith
</td>

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

in css you can’t do this.
for styling you can use jquery for finding that
like this:

$("td.dev").contents().filter(function(){ return this.nodeType != 3; }).css('color', 'red');