Is there a way to get innerText of only the top element (and ignore the child element's innerText)?

Question

Is there a way to get innerText of only the top element (and ignore the child element\'s innerText) ?

Example:

 
   top node text 
   <         


        
      

Answer 1

If you don't want to ignore the child element's inner text, use the following function:

function getInnerText(el) {
    var x = [];
    var child = el.firstChild;
    while (child) {
        if (child.nodeType == 3) {
            x.push(child.nodeValue);
        }
        else if (child.nodeType == 1) {
            var ii = getInnerText(child);
            if (ii.length > 0) x.push(ii);
        }
        child = child.nextSibling;
    }
    return x.join(" ");
}