Question

I have this structure:

<div class="person">
  <a href="#">Title &ndash; Description</a>
</div>

I need a solution: cut every text behind the dash (with the dash) in the div with the class “person”. how can i solve this with jquery?

thank you

Answer 1

This works:

$("div.person a").each(function() {
    $(this).html($(this).html().split('–')[0]);
});​

jsFiddle example.