How do I select text nodes with jQuery?

Question

I would like to get all descendant text nodes of an element, as a jQuery collection. What is the best way to do that?

Answer 1

if you want to strip all tags, then try this

function:

String.prototype.stripTags=function(){
var rtag=/<.*?[^>]>/g;
return this.replace(rtag,'');
}

usage:

var newText=$('selector').html().stripTags();