How to Select Text Nodes With Jquery

How do I select text nodes with jQuery?

jQuery doesn't have a convenient function for this. You need to combine contents(), which will give just child nodes but includes text nodes, with find(), which gives all descendant elements but no text nodes. Here's what I've come up with:

var getTextNodesIn = function(el) {
    return $(el).find(":not(iframe)").addBack().contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == 3;
    });
};

getTextNodesIn(el);

Note: If you're using jQuery 1.7 or earlier, the code above will not work. To fix this, replace addBack() with andSelf(). andSelf() is deprecated in favour of addBack() from 1.8 onwards.

This is somewhat inefficient compared to pure DOM methods and has to include an ugly workaround for jQuery's overloading of its contents() function (thanks to @rabidsnail in the comments for pointing that out), so here is non-jQuery solution using a simple recursive function. The includeWhitespaceNodes parameter controls whether or not whitespace text nodes are included in the output (in jQuery they are automatically filtered out).

Update: Fixed bug when includeWhitespaceNodes is falsy.

function getTextNodesIn(node, includeWhitespaceNodes) {
    var textNodes = [], nonWhitespaceMatcher = /\S/;

    function getTextNodes(node) {
        if (node.nodeType == 3) {
            if (includeWhitespaceNodes || nonWhitespaceMatcher.test(node.nodeValue)) {
                textNodes.push(node);
            }
        } else {
            for (var i = 0, len = node.childNodes.length; i < len; ++i) {
                getTextNodes(node.childNodes[i]);
            }
        }
    }

    getTextNodes(node);
    return textNodes;
}

getTextNodesIn(el);

Get all text nodes using jquery

This is the same question

try this:

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

jQuery select text nodes and delete their content

As I understood it, I think this is what you are looking for:

$('.example').each(function(){
    console.log($(this).contents());
    $(this).contents().filter(function(){
        if( this.nodeType === 1 && this.childElementCount == 0 && this.textContent == ''){
            this.textContent = 'new value';
        }
    });
});

You can check fiddle

How to select all text nodes after specific element

You can get the content and use split with hr to get the html after the hr and then replace this content within a div and you will be able to manipulate this div to get your content:

var content = document.querySelector('.someclass').innerHTML;

content = content.split('<hr>');

content = content[1];

document.querySelector('.hide').innerHTML = content;

/**/

var nodes = document.querySelector('.hide').childNodes;

for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {

  console.log(nodes[i].textContent);

}

.hide {

  display: none;

}

<div class="someclass">

  <h3>First</h3>

  <strong>Second</strong>

  <hr> Third

  <br> Fourth

  <br>

  <em></em> ...

</div>

<div class="hide"></div>

jQuery select and wrap textNode

You can use contents, and filter by node type (3 is for text node):

$('div').contents()
        .filter(function(){return this.nodeType === 3})
        .wrap('<b />');

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/nJqKq/8