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Grab any Text Node within the BODY using Jquery

Answer 1

+1 A:

This is not what you want?

$('body').text();

Thomas 2010-10-16 17:58:17

Answer 2

A:

What you have should work, you can test it here. I'd say there's no need to include html in your selector though, is there really anything outside of the <body> element you want to deal with in a <span>?

Nick Craver 2010-10-16 17:59:28

Answer 3

+1 A:

contents() will only return the children elements of the tags you have specified - p, div, html, and body. A text node inside a td or a h1 tag will not be found for instance.

One way to get all text nodes inside the <body> tag using jQuery is to search for children of body and its descendants,

$("body, body *").contents().filter(function() {
    // if this is a text node and matches regex
    // then do something to it
}

You can find various other non-jQuery approaches to get all text nodes in this answer.

Anurag 2010-10-16 18:11:07

Answer 4

A:

Why don't you just clean the HTML?

var strInputCode=$("body").html();
var strTagStrippedText = strInputCode.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");
alert("Output text:\n" + strTagStrippedText);

I must admit that probably $("body").text(), does the thing.

netadictos 2010-10-16 18:15:16

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