Loop through ul li elements and get the li text excluding childrens

Question

Hello how can i loop through ul li elements and get the text content only from the li, excepting the text content of its children?

<li class="lom">@paul<div class="on-off">offline</div></li>
<li class="lom">@alex<div class="on-off">offline</div></li>
<li class="lom">@jhon<div class="on-off">offline</div></li>

I want to get only the @paul without offline , I have tried this:

var lnx = $('.cht(ul class) .lom');
for (let i = 0; i < lnx.length; i++) {
    var txt = lnx[i].textContent;
    console.log(txt + '\n');
}

But i get @pauloffline

Answer 1

Iterate through the .childNodes , filtering by nodeType of 3 (text node), to get only nodes that are text node children:

 const texts = [...document.querySelector('.lom').childNodes].filter(node => node.nodeType === 3).map(node => node.textContent).join(''); console.log(texts);

 <ul> <li class="lom">@paul<div class="on-off">offline</div></li> </ul>

Answer 2

Here's a jQuery variant that uses the .ignore() micro plugin

 $.fn.ignore = function(sel) { return this.clone().find(sel||">*").remove().end(); }; // Get LI element by text const $userLI = (text) => $(".lom").filter((i, el) => $(el).ignore().text().trim() === text); // Use like $userLI("@paul").css({color: "gold"});

 <ul> <li class="lom">@paul <span class="on-off">offline</span></li> <li class="lom">@alex <span class="on-off">offline</span></li> <li class="lom">@jhon <span class="on-off">offline</span></li> <li class="lom">@paul</li> </ul> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

Answer 3

Jquery solution using replace

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace

 $('.lom').each(function(index, value) { var getContent = $(this).text(); var replaceTxt = getContent.replace('<div class="on-off">offline</div>','').replace('offline',''); //$(this).find('.on-off').remove(); if (replaceTxt == '@paul') { console.log(replaceTxt); } });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <li class="lom">@paul<div class="on-off">offline</div></li> <li class="lom">@alex<div class="on-off">offline</div></li> <li class="lom">@jhon<div class="on-off">offline</div></li>