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copied!<p>jQuery doesn't have a convenient function for this. You need to combine <code>contents()</code>, which will give just child nodes but includes text nodes, with <code>find()</code>, which gives all descendant elements but no text nodes. Here's what I've come up with:</p> <pre><code>var getTextNodesIn = function(el) { return $(el).find(":not(iframe)").addBack().contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType == 3; }); }; getTextNodesIn(el); </code></pre> <p><strong>Note: If you're using jQuery 1.7 or earlier, the code above will not work. To fix this, replace <a href="http://api.jquery.com/addBack/" rel="noreferrer"><code>addBack()</code></a> with <a href="http://api.jquery.com/andSelf/" rel="noreferrer"><code>andSelf()</code></a>. <code>andSelf()</code> is deprecated in favour of <code>addBack()</code> from 1.8 onwards.</strong></p> <p>This is somewhat inefficient compared to pure DOM methods and has to include an <a href="http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11275" rel="noreferrer">ugly workaround for jQuery's overloading of its <code>contents()</code> function</a> (thanks to @rabidsnail in the comments for pointing that out), so here is non-jQuery solution using a simple recursive function. The <code>includeWhitespaceNodes</code> parameter controls whether or not whitespace text nodes are included in the output (in jQuery they are automatically filtered out).</p> <p>Update: Fixed bug when includeWhitespaceNodes is falsy.</p> <pre><code>function getTextNodesIn(node, includeWhitespaceNodes) { var textNodes = [], nonWhitespaceMatcher = /\S/; function getTextNodes(node) { if (node.nodeType == 3) { if (includeWhitespaceNodes || nonWhitespaceMatcher.test(node.nodeValue)) { textNodes.push(node); } } else { for (var i = 0, len = node.childNodes.length; i < len; ++i) { getTextNodes(node.childNodes[i]); } } } getTextNodes(node); return textNodes; } getTextNodesIn(el); </code></pre>

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