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Is there a way to get innerText of only the top element (and ignore the child element's innerText)?

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Is there a way to get innerText of only the top element (and ignore the child element's innerText) ?

Example:

<div> 

   top node text 

   <div> child node text </div>

</div>

How to get the top node text while ignoring child node text ? innerText property of top div seem to return concatenation of both inner , top text.

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answered 13 Years ago minab · Accepted Answer

Just iterate over the child nodes and concatenate text nodes:

var el = document.getElementById(your_element_id),

    child = el.firstChild,

    texts = [];



while (child) {

    if (child.nodeType == 3) {

        texts.push(child.data);

    }

    child = child.nextSibling;

}



var text = texts.join();