Jquery Select text outside/next to a child

Question

just getting myself familiar with jquery, please consider me as a noob for now.

I am trying to select text in this follow scenrio:-

<div id="blah">
<p> <span>Text1</span> text2</p>
</div>

How can I get the value of text2 ?

Thank you

Answer 1

If you want the text of entire p tag use:

var text = $("#blah p").text();

Otherwise if you want to exlude the span part, then use:

var text = $("#blah p").contents(":not(span)").text();

Your text will now be stored in the variable named text.