How do I select text nodes with jQuery?

Question

I would like to get all descendant text nodes of an element, as a jQuery collection. What is the best way to do that?

Answer 1

For me, plain old .contents() appeared to work to return the text nodes, just have to be careful with your selectors so that you know they will be text nodes.

For example, this wrapped all the text content of the TDs in my table with pre tags and had no problems.

jQuery("#resultTable td").content().wrap("
")