get text in div [duplicate]

Answer 1

var theText = "";
$('div').contents().each(function() {
    if(this.nodeType === 3) theText += $(this).text();
});

Answer 2

You can use .clone() for that, like so:

b = $('div').clone();
b.children('span').remove();
alert( b.text() ); // alerts "text"

Using .clone() we can make a copy of the div, remove the span, and then get the text, all without affecting the original DOM elements displayed on the page.

Answer 3

Try this

  var myText = $('#dd').clone()            
             .children()    //select all the children
             .remove()  //remove all the children
             .end() //again go back to selected element
             .text();   //get the text of element