jquery exclude some child nodes from .text()

Answer 1

A nice small jQuery plugin: jQuery.ignore()

$.fn.ignore = function(sel){
  return this.clone().find(sel||">*").remove().end();
};

Use like:

$("#parent").ignore()                  // Will ignore all children elements
$("#parent").ignore("script")          // Will ignore a specific element
$("#parent").ignore("h1, p, .ignore")  // Will ignore specific elements

Example:

   Get this
   Ignore this
   
Get this paragraph
   
Ignore this

var ignoreSpanAndFooter = $("#parent").ignore("span, .footer").html();

will result in:

Get this
Get this paragraph

_{Snippet from this Answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11348383/383904}