Question

My html is:

<div>
   Some text
   <span>label text</span>
</div>

Jquery:

??

I want output printed as –

"Some text"

When I do $("div").text(), I get Some textLabel text
and when I do $("div").html(), I get Some text<span>Label text</span>

Answer 1

Try this plz:

Working demo http://jsfiddle.net/f8VFf/ you can also look for innerHTMl and outterHTML

jQuery.fn.justtext = function() {

    return $(this).clone()
            .children()
            .remove()
            .end()
            .text();

};
alert($('div').justtext());​