jquery: how can you select texts not surrounded by html tags?

Question

Beer


Vodka


rum


whiskey

how can you select beer ? or rum ? in jquery ? they are not surrounded by any html tags....

Answer 1

Well it has to be surrounded by something, even if it's just the tag. If you had a HTML document with just that written in it, I would think the browser would implicitly put a in the DOM for you.

That being said, take a look at this:

How do I select text nodes with jQuery?