Use jQuery to select text not in an element

Question

Say i have this:

    
hello
    hello
    
Hello

How does one

Answer 1

$('.myDiv')
  .contents()
  .filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
  }).text();

How do I select text nodes with jQuery?

http://jsfiddle.net/6us8r/

Answer 2

js1568 has a better approach

$('div.myDiv').filter('p').text() would probably work.

I take it back, filter would not work. maybe something like:

var jText = $('div.myDiv').clone();
jText.find('p').remove();
jText.text();