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Getting text within element excluding decendants

I’m trying to use :not and .not() but still not work. I want the result to be only “Monday”.

Example markup:

 <td id="day_id">
  Monday
   <div class='spec_class'>
    <span>One</span>
    <span>Two</span>
   </div>
</td>

Answer 1

You need to look at the textNodes of the element

var td = jQuery("#day_id");
var textNodes = td.contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == 3;
    });

console.log(textNodes.text());

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