Getting the contents of an element WITHOUT its children

Question

I have a mild preference in solving this in pure JS, but if the jQuery version is simpler, then jQuery is fine too. Effectively the situation is like this

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Answer 1

If you just want the first child then it's rather simple. If you are looking for the first text-only element then this code will need some modification.

var text = document.getElementById('thisone').firstChild.nodeValue;
alert(text);