CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1321237
user1321237

Reputation:

Extracting some part of text from a tag with jQuery

I have the following:

<a title="Home" href="#">Home<br>test</a>
<a title="Home" href="#">Home two<br>test</a>
<a title="Home" href="#">Home two three<br>test</a>

What I need is to get the text "Home" and "Home two" and "Home two three" from the address tags. I had forgotten that I can have a br tag in between.

I need something like this:

var abc = a.html()

but I know this only gives me everything

Upvotes: 1

Views: 161

Answers (2)

Tats_innit
Tats_innit

Reputation: 34107

Hiya simple demo (new updated for your specific case) http://jsfiddle.net/zrmGm/

http://jsfiddle.net/XswN4/ And demo when you can have 3 words and it will still pick up 2 http://jsfiddle.net/XswN4/1/

Updated demo based on what yo unmentioned this will help http://jsfiddle.net/zrmGm/ (this sample will get youi everything before <br> tag!

using match further read: http://www.jquery4u.com/syntax/jquery-basic-regex-selector-examples/

code

$.fn.ready(function() {

    $('a').each(function() {

        var str = $(this).html().match(/\w+\s\w+/);

        alert(str);
    });

});​

Updated code to get everything before <br> tag

$.fn.ready(function() {

    $('a').each(function() {

        var str = $(this).html().split('<br>')[0]

        alert(str);
    });

});​

Upvotes: 0

moribvndvs
moribvndvs

Reputation: 42497

You can use .contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType == 3; }).first().text() to get the first text node value. This will throw out any text after that (like your br and on). Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/cHhU5/

Upvotes: 3

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