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

I'm afraid you will need to use regular expressions for that. In order to get the text before span element use something like this:

var txt = $('span').parent().html();
var regex = /(.*)/;
txt = txt.match(regex)[1];

Modify the regex to match other parts of the string as well.