<li>
<a href='http://stackoverflow.com'>Link</a>
"That was a link"
</li>
How would you, with jQuery, select the "That was a link" string? Obviously using $('li:last') won't work, as :last has to select an element.
So how do you? Let's just say I need to remove it with .remove()
You can accomplish this in a few ways. Here's one solution that may not be perfect, but should work:
<li>
<a id="myID" href='http://stackoverflow.com'>Link</a>
"That was a link"
</li>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#myID').text();
</script>
You could also change the text of the list item by using this:
$('#myID').text('your text here');
The remove() function is not what you want here. That is used to remove an entire element, not just text.
You can use the .contents() method
('li').contents().last().remove()
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/QJW4N/
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Description: Get the children of each element in the set of matched elements, including text and comment nodes.
<span>around the text?