Getting text nodes using jQuery

It just takes a little extra work to filter a node's contents based on their type:

$node.contents().filter(function() { 
 //Node.TEXT_NODE === 3
 return (this.nodeType === 3);
}).each(function () {
 // for each text node, do something with this.nodeValue
});

Fork the gist: https://gist.github.com/147952

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