jQuery get .text() but not the text in span

Question

Hi guys this is my jQuery part that makes my menu for my pages.

function fetchmenus() {
    $.getJSON(\'sys/classes/fetch.php?proccess=1\', function(status)          


        

Answer 1

Nice solution Herman, though it can be reduced to something like this:

JS

$('li a').contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == 3;
}).text();

HTML

Applehi Juice

Will return Apple Juice

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/49sHa/1/