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jquery – get text for element without children text

I’ve a div with text inside and span after text like this:

<div>
text
<span>other text</span>
</div>

and I’d like to get only text in div not in span

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use .clone() for that, like so:

b = $('div').clone();
b.children('span').remove();
alert( b.text() ); // alerts "text"

Using .clone() we can make a copy of the div, remove the span, and then get the text, all without affecting the original DOM elements displayed on the page.