Jquery extract text using .text() except particular tag

Question

I've an HTML

<td class="abc"><b><span>NO</span>YES</b> ALL</td>

I am trying to get text of class abc without span tag. For eg. in above HTML I want only "YES ALL".

$('td.abc').text() returns NOYES ALL

$('td.abc').clone.find('span').remove().text() returns NO

Can anyone help me getting all text in above HTML except particular tag, here except tag span so that I could return "YES ALL". I want a one line solution.

I doubt that the second line returns "ALL". Assuming that .clone.find is just a typo (it should be .clone().find, it probably returns "NO", the text of the span element. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 6:21
@FelixKling, thanks for pointing. I've corrected my mistake. — Dr. DS
– Dr. DS, Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 6:37

Ram · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-06 06:30:55Z

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.clone() is a method not a property, also since you are using .find() after removing the element, you should use .end() method for getting the previous collection, i.e the td element.

var text = $('td.abc').clone().find('span').remove().end().text();

http://jsfiddle.net/keY9Q/

edited Oct 6, 2013 at 6:30

answered Oct 6, 2013 at 6:20

Ram

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Dr. DS Over a year ago

Thanks, I've forgot to use .end()

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