This might be a very simple thing in jquery but I am not able to figure it out. My html document has the following structure
<div class="body">
<a href="/question?id=70"><p>This is the text I want to extract</p></a>
</div>
I tried this
$("body").find("a p").text()
but this does not seem to be working for me. I am able to get the paragraph object but not the text. I tested it with console.log with no use.
What you have should be working (you can test it here), make sure you're running it when the DOM is ready though, like this:
$(function() {
alert($("body").find("a p").text()); //or just $("a p").text()
});
If it runs earlier, the elements may not be ready, and your selector won't find any matches.
If you want to select the class body make sure to use ".body" instead of "body" (which would select the <body> element). Here's a version using the .class selector:
$(function() {
alert($(".body a p").text());
});
the .html() function retrieves a nodes inner html.
$('.body a p').html();
should do the trick
Not sure if this would cause a problem, but you have invalid markup. From "The global structure of an HTML document" by the W3C
Generally, block-level elements may contain inline elements and other block-level elements. Generally, inline elements may contain only data and other inline elements. Inherent in this structural distinction is the idea that block elements create "larger" structures than inline elements.
a elements are supposed to be contained by block elements like p, not the other way around.