How do I clone a single part of content from a h3-element?

Good morning everybody!

I hope you can help me simplifying my code-snippet. I'm cloning a h3-element with all its content. This cloned element contains two a-elements and three different text snippets. I want to remove the a-elements and part1 and part2 of the content being some static text. They only text I want to hold is textOfUnknownLength.

Problem 1 I have to use the jQuery-li开发者_JS百科brary from version 2.6. This is my code I got so far and it's ugly. I just couldn't figure out another way.

The cloned h3-element

<h3 class="title">
   part1 <a href="#" class="link1">text</a>
   part2 textOfUnknownLength
   <a href="#" class="link2">text</a>
</h3>

My code to get the textOfUnknownLength

var name = $("h3",e).clone();
name.find(".link1, .link2").remove();
name.filter("h3").each(function(){
  if($(this).html() != ''){
    $(this).html($(this).html().replace('part1','').replace('part2',''));
  }
});

Problem 2 I want to replace h3 with span, but hold the content. How would I do this?

Thank you for your help.

To replace all h3s with spans you could use this:

$( "h3" ).each( function( index, element ) {
   var $element = $( element );
   $element.replaceWith( "<span>" + $element.html() + "</span>" );
} );

EDIT: I edited the code to work with your jQuery Version (< 1.4)

EDIT 2: I edited the code to REALLY work with your jQuery Version (< 1.4)

Try something like this...

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/bZ8px/1

var name = $('.title').text().split(' ');
for (var i = 0; i < name.length; i++) {
    if (name[i] == 'part2')
        $('.title').after('<span>'+name[i+1]+'</span>');
}

If your goal is to turn

<h3 class="title">
   part1 <a href="#" class="link1">text</a>
   part2 textOfUnknownLength
   <a href="#" class="link2">text</a>
</h3>

into

<span>textOfUnknownLength</span>

Check out: http://jsfiddle.net/h6DKe/8/