Can I select only when there's no text around it?

Question

I would like to select anchor tags only when they\'re completely by themselves, that way I can make those look like buttons, without causing anchors within sentences to look lik

Answer 1

jQuery Code Example:

// this will select '
' or '
text
'
// but not '
'
$('p').has('a:only-child').each(function() {
    const p = $(this); // jQuerify
    let hasalsotext = false;
    p.contents().each(function(){
        if ((this.nodeType === 3) && (this.nodeValue.trim() !== "")) {
            hasalsotext = true;
            return false; // break
        }
    });
    if (!hasalsotext) {
        $('a', p).addClass('looks-like-a-button');
    }
});