How to get text inside of container that is not part of children

Question

Let\'s have html code like this:

1.Hallo Kitty, 
How are you?
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Answer 1

this will work for you

$('#d1')
  .contents()
  .filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
}).text()

or you can use this as suggested below for old browser support also

var text = $("#d1").contents().filter( function() {
    return this.nodeType === 3;
}).text();

Demo