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

I had the same problem and solved it with:

Code:

$.fn.nextNode = function(){
  var contents = $(this).parent().contents();
  return contents.get(contents.index(this)+1);
}

Usage:

$('#my_id').nextNode();

Is like next() but also returns the text nodes.