Question

I’m trying to get some elements in my page using the DOM: $('ul li').text()

And after that (or maybe during that) I would like to add a comma. In some cases the text that I’m getting has white spaces and other characters.

As a result I would love to get an array like this for example ["first text", "second element", "third"]

What would be the easier way to do that using javascript functions or jQuery?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

If I’ve understood your question correctly, you want to put the text of each li in your selector into an array. If so, try this:

var liText = $('ul li').map(function() {
    return $(this).text();
}).get();
console.log($.unique(liText));

Example fiddle