JQuery InnerText not including sub element

Question

Im wondering how I would get the text of a nested list item without getting the text of its children i.e.

   

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Answer 1

The following will get you a concatenated string of all the text nodes that are direct children of a node:

function getChildText(node) {
  var text = "";
  for (var child = node.firstChild; !!child; child = child.nextSibling) {
    if (child.nodeType === 3) {
      text += child.nodeValue;
    }
  }
  return text;
}

alert( getChildText(document.getElementById("node")) );