How to get a text before given element using jQuery?

Question

Let\'s consider following html code:

  Some text followed by a span element
  and another text followed by a bold         


        

Answer 1

How about collecting them into an array instead of two calls to $:

var texts = $('span, b').map(function(){
    return this.previousSibling.nodeValue
});
texts[0]; // "Some text followed by "
texts[1]; // " and another text followed by "

References:

• The previousSibling property
• jQuery.map