Yeah, I had thought of the hidden div idea, and placing the html into
that, then using .each(). I just wondered if there was a method to do
it without adding the content to the DOM.
On Apr 6, 10:35 am, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote:
> d'oh, I just realized you have the html in a var...
>
> I s'pose a "cheat" would be to add them to a hidden UL and then do
> something like the below so you could take advantage of the .text() and
> .each() method. Other than that, I'm not sure of the regex offhand to
> split the LI's and parse out the inner text, sry.
>
> - Jack
>
> Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > maybe something like this:
>
> > var ar = [];
> > $('#yourList li').each(function(){
> > ar.push( $(this).text() );
> > });
>
> > - Jack
>
> > Nic Hubbard wrote:
> >> A better explanation:
>
> >> I have a var that contains some html. Within that there are <li>
> >> elements that I need to strip the text out of and put that into an
> >> array. How would I do this?
>
> >> I figure I could use each() and push(), but I am not sure how to do
> >> this grabbing it from a var.
>
> >> On Apr 5, 11:30 pm, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> What would be the correct method to create an array from the text
> >>> inside <li> items?
>
> >>> Is below, the best method, or would it even work?
>
> >>> var array_test = $(#test li).text().makeArray();
