jQuery getting a text but no html [duplicate]

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Getting the contents of an element WITHOUT its children

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How can I get foobar out of the following HTML with jquery/javascript, without using regular expressions?

<div id="somediv">
foobar
<span></span>
</div>

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Just use .text().

$("#somediv").text();

Or, if the span has content which you want to ignore, use:

$("#somediv").contents().first().text();

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If you just want the text from the first child node, use

$("#somediv").contents().eq(0).text()

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Try this:

var text = document.getElementById("somediv").getElementsByTagName("span")[0].innerHTML;

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You can do the following:

$('#somediv').text().trim();

The trim will get rid of the extra whitespace from the carriage returns and leave you with just foobar.