[JavaScript] On [jQuery] All descendent text nodes within a node

2008-06-29T21:32:17-07:00

From what you say, you only need the descendants, not the starting node(s). So you can get it a bit smaller (and a little bit quicker) by removing one of your two function() blocks. How does this look to you?

You might get even quicker by using this.childNodes (which is what jQuery's contents() function uses internally), as long as you don't need to worry about iframes.

$.fn.textNodes = function() {
  var ret = [];
  this.contents().each( function() {
    var fn = arguments.callee;
      if ( this.nodeType == 3 || $.nodeName(this, "br") ) 
        ret.push( this );
      else $(this).contents().each(fn);
  });
  return $(ret);
}

jp.stacey

[JavaScript] On [jQuery] All descendent text nodes within a node