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Answer 1

+1 A:

There's the jQuery comments() plugin which will do that for you. Usage:

var comments = $( "#foo" ).comments();
alert(comments.html());

karim79 2009-10-26 09:00:23

I really need to be able to select the comments in the same way as any other element, but thats a good start, thank you

Anthony Johnston 2009-10-26 09:45:31

Answer 2

+1 A:

And if you don't want a plugin:

var content = jQuery('body').html();
alert(content.match(/<!--.*?-->/g));

This uses regular expressions. It is set to search for anything enclosed by  while it doesn't matter what's written on the inside.

NOTE: I am not sure however, if jQuery also returns comments. If it does not, this approach does not work.

Mike 2009-10-26 09:43:45

It does return comments, so the above works, thanks for the suggestion

Anthony Johnston 2009-10-26 10:29:27

Actually looking again, this is not realy using jquery to do anything useful ie document.body.innerHTML == jQuery('body').html(), and there is more to the regex than suggested here... thinking again, thanks anyway Mike

Anthony Johnston 2009-10-26 13:42:05

Answer 3

+1 A:

This seems to do something equivalent to what you're looking for:

    $(function() {
        $("body").contents().filter(function(){
            return this.nodeType == 8;
        }).each(function(i, e){
            alert(e.nodeValue);
        });
    });

Frank Geueke 2010-09-08 19:54:25

+1 for using native DOM properties.

Sean Vieira 2010-09-08 20:10:35

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