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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:23:07+00:00

In JavaScript/JQuery I want to get all the text that is seen between some

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In JavaScript/JQuery I want to get all the text that is seen between some other text. For example, if the HTML document had:

<b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 1</b>
<div id="foo"><b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 2</b>

I’d like to get an array that has ‘Some Text 1’ and ‘Some Text 2’ since they are both in between ‘<b class="blah">Blah:‘ followed by a ‘</b>‘

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since you mention jQuery, just select all the right nodes and check their text. You can put a regex in here if you want, but it’s not needed.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$( function(){
    var texts = [];
    $('b.blah').each( function()
    {
      var txt = $(this).text();
      if ( 0 == txt.indexOf( 'Blah:' ) )
      {
          texts.push( txt.substr( 6 ) );
      }
    } );
    alert( texts );
});
</script>

</head>
<body>
  <b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 1</b>
  <div id="foo"><b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 2</b>
  <div id="foo"><b class="blah">Some Text 3</b>
</body>
</html>

    Or with a string of HTML 

    $( function(){
  var htmlChunk = '<b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 1</b>\n'
    + '<div id="foo"><b class="blah">Blah: Some Text 2</b></div>\n'
    + '<div id="foo2"><b class="blah">Some Text 3</b></div>';

    var texts = [];
    $('b.blah', '<div>' + htmlChunk + '</div>').each( function()
    {
      var txt = $(this).text();
      if ( 0 == txt.indexOf( 'Blah:' ) )
      {
          texts.push( txt.substr( 6 ) );
      }
    } );
    alert( texts );
});
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