Get an array of list element contents in jQuery

Question

I have a structure like this:

  
text1
  
text2
  
text3

Answer 1

And in clean javascript:

var texts = [], lis = document.getElementsByTagName("li");
for(var i=0, im=lis.length; im>i; i++)
  texts.push(lis[i].firstChild.nodeValue);

alert(texts);