Get all text nodes using jquery

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How do I select text nodes with jQuery?

In jquery we can select an element using:

$(#elem).get();

is their a way to select all text nodes of an element using jquery ?

[Do you mean all `Node.TEXT_NODE` elements?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/298750/417685) — Alexander, Jan 09 '13 at 11:04
This question is already answered I guess !!! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298750/how-do-i-select-text-nodes-with-jquery — Anuj Verma, Jan 09 '13 at 11:08

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 11:06

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Try this,

$('#elem *').contents().filter(function() { 
    return (this.nodeType == 3); 
});

answered Jan 09 '13 at 11:06

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It should be the accepted answer – Mike Nov 15 '16 at 08:14
Exactly. This goes into all the levels inside #elem. This should have been accepted answer. – Adarsh Konchady Mar 24 '17 at 08:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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This is the same question

try this:

$(elem)
  .contents()
  .filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType === 3; //Node.TEXT_NODE
  });

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Jan 09 '13 at 11:04

Ahmed Kato

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@Asad I will accept this answer in 10 min. – Jan 09 '13 at 11:07
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This code, including the comment, is verbatim from an answer in the linked question. Please attribute where attribute is due. =) – J. Steen Jan 09 '13 at 11:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 11:06

You can use .text() to get the text of an element, but I don't know if this will do exactly what you want. It's not clear from your question, but are you looking for something which would match only text nodes in the same way you can in XSLT? For example, a snippet like this:

<p>This is <strong>a typical</strong> line of <em>text</em>

Would result in 4 matched text nodes in XSLT. Is this what you meant?

Get all text nodes using jquery

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