How to get text inside of container that is not part of children

Question

Let\'s have html code like this:

1.Hallo Kitty, 
How are you?
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Answer 1

Improving on halex's trick, you can take advantage of the fact that .children() finds only DOM nodes and ignores text nodes:

var text = $('#d1').clone().children().remove().end().text(); // string "Hallo "

...but I prefer the .nodeType technique, because it's more clear what you're doing.