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Jquery selector to do text() but without class or id?

<h1>
<br>
USA
<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-top:13px;" class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-down"></p>
<br>
<br>
Canada
</h1>
Without changing the HTML above, how can I get the value of Canada with jQuery selector?

If you want to get the last text-node value, then try this
var h1 = document.querySelector("h1");
var childNodes = h1.childNodes;
console.log(childNodes[childNodes.length -1 ].nodeValue);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1><br>USA<br><br><p style="margin-top:13px;" class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-down"></p><br><br>Canada </h1>
Equivalent jquery would be
var h1 = $("h1")[0];

If the markup style is consistent -- not prone to change, you can use xpath.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath

You can also do something like this:
var value = $('h1').contents().filter(function() {
return this.nodeType == 3;
})[1];
Here i use nodeType == 3, which selects text nodes.
https://jsfiddle.net/54tw4nw0/

Here you go:
var afterP;
var text = $('h1').contents().filter(function() {
if (this.nodeName == "P") {
afterP = true
}
return afterP && this.nodeType == 3;
}).text();
console.log(text);
Solution copied & enhanced from Get the text after span element using jquery

Try :
var text = $("h1").html();
alert(text.substring(text.lastIndexOf("<br>") +4));
Working Fiddle

Better way of extracting text from HTML in Javascript

I'm trying to scrape text from an HTML string by using container.innerText || container.textContent where container is the element from which I want to extract text.
Usually, the text I want to extract is located in <p> tags. So for the HTML below as an example:
<div id="container">
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
</div>
Using
var container = document.getElementById("container");
var text = container.innerText || container.textContent; // the text I want
will return This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence. without a space between the first period and the start of the second sentence.
My overall goal is to parse text using the Stanford CoreNLP, but its parser cannot detect that these are 2 sentences because they are not separated by a space. Is there a better way of extracting text from HTML such that the sentences are separated by a space character?
The HTML I'm parsing will have the text I want mostly in <p> tags, but the HTML may also contain <img>, <a>, and other tags embeeded between <p> tags.

As a dirty hack, try using this:
container.innerHTML.replace(/<.*?>/g," ").replace(/ +/g," ");
This will replace all tags with a space, then collapse multiple spaces into a single one.
Note that if there is a > inside an attribute value, this will mess you up. Avoiding this problem will require more elaborate parsing, such as looping through all text nodes and putting them together.
Longer but more robust method:
function recurse(result, node) {
var c = node.childNodes, l = c.length, i;
for( i=0; i<l; i++) {
if( c[i].nodeType == 3) result += c.nodeValue + " ";
if( c[i].nodeType == 1) result = recurse(result, c[i]);
}
return result;
}
recurse(container);
Assuming I haven't made a stupid mistake, this will perform a depth-first search for text nodes, appending their contents to the result as it goes.

jQuery has the method text() that does what you want. Will this work for you?
I'm not sure if it fits for everything that's in your container but it works in my example. It will also take the text of a <a>-tag and appends it to the text.
Update 20.12.2020
If you're not using jQuery. You could implement the text method with vanilla js like this:
const nodes = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#container"));
const text = nodes
.filter((node) => !!node.textContent)
.map((node) => node.textContent)
.join(" ");
Using querySelectorAll("#container") to get every node in the container. Using Array.from so we can work with Array methods like filter, map & join.
Finally, generate the text by filtering out elements with-out textContent. Then use map to get each text and use join to add a space separator between the text.
$(function() {
var textToParse = $('#container').text();
$('#output').html(textToParse);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="container">
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
<img src="http://placehold.it/200x200" alt="Nice picture"></img>
<p>Third sentence.</p>
</div>
<h2>output:</h2>
<div id="output"></div>

You can use the following function to extract and process the text as shown. It basically goes through all the children nodes of the target element and the child nodes of the child nodes and so on ... adding spaces at appropriate points:
function getInnerText( sel ) {
var txt = '';
$( sel ).contents().each(function() {
var children = $(this).children();
txt += ' ' + this.nodeType === 3 ? this.nodeValue : children.length ? getInnerText( this ) : $(this).text();
});
return txt;
}
function getInnerText( sel ) {
var txt = '';
$( sel ).contents().each(function() {
var children = $(this).children();
txt += ' ' + this.nodeType === 3 ?
this.nodeValue : children.length ?
getInnerText( this ) : $(this).text();
});
return txt;
}
alert( getInnerText( '#container' ) );
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="container">
Some other sentence
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
</div>

You may use jQuery to traverse down the elements.
Here is the code :
$(document).ready(function()
{
var children = $("#container").find("*");
var text = "";
while (children.html() != undefined)
{
text += children.html()+"\n";
children = children.next();
}
alert(text);
});
Here is the fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/69wezyc5/

Stack at getting elements with javascript

I have the following html elements from which I have to get some specific texts,
example "John Doe"
I'm a newbie in javascript but have been playing with getElementById etc but I can't seem to get this one right.
<div id="name">
<p><span id="nameheading">name: </span> John Doe</p>
</div>
Bellow is What I have tried:
function askInformation()
{
var nameHeading = document.getElementById("nameheading");
var paragraph = document.getElementsByTagName("p").item(0).innerHTML ;
var name = paragraph[4];
console.log(name); // prints letter (n)
}
I need help please

If you want to get the text following the span in the following:
<div id="name">
<p><span id="nameheading">name: </span> John Doe</p>
</div>
You can use something like:
// Get a reference to the span
var span = document.getElementById('nameheading');
// Get the following text
var text = span.nextSibling.data;
However that is highly dependent on the internal structure, it may be best to loop over text node children and collect the content of all of them. You may also want to trim leading and trailing white space.
You could also get a reference to the parent DIV and use a function like the following that collects the text children and ignores child elements:
// Return the text of the child text nodes of an element,
// but not descendant element text nodes
function getChildText(element) {
var children = element.childNodes;
var text = '';
for (var i=0, iLen=children.length; i<iLen; i++) {
if (children[i].nodeType == '3') {
text += children[i].data;
}
}
return text;
}
var text = getChildText(document.getElementById('name').getElementsByTagName('p')[0]);
or more concisely for hosts that support the querySelector interface:
var text = getChildText(document.querySelector('#name p'));

var paragraph = document.getElementsByTagName("p").item(0).innerHTML ;
var name = paragraph.replace('<span id="nameheading">name: </span>','').trim(); // John Doe

Detect multiple drop-down selections and paragraph content dynamically with jQuery and JavaScript

I've created a madlib style paragraph with multiple drop-down selections for synonyms of various words. Here's an example:
<p id="the-text">This is an example paragraph containing many
<select class="selector">
<option>selections</option>
<option>dropdown thingies</option>
<option>option choosers</option>
</select>that I would like to be able to
<select class="selector">
<option>click on</option>
<option>select</option>
<option>choose</option>
</select>and then know what the
<select class="selector">
<option>final</option>
<option>selected</option>
<option>variable</option>
</select>paragraph text is.
<select class="selector">
<option>It would be great</option>
<option>It would be nice</option>
<option>It'd be delightful</option>
</select>, and
<select class="selector">
<option>useful</option>
<option>helpful</option>
<option>interesting</option>
</select>to dynamically create paragraphs like this.</p>
<textarea id="text-area" rows="4" cols="110">This is where the text should appear...
</textarea>
Here is a live example: http://jsfiddle.net/T4guG/2/
Using jQuery and Javascript, I am trying to get the selected (and surrounding) text to appear in the text area.
It's kind of working, but there are two problems:
1) SOLVED: There was a problem with punctuation, but replacing:
if (element == "{") {
content_array[i] = foo[j];
j++;
}
with
if (element.indexOf('{') >= 0) {
content_array[i] = foo[j];
j++;
}
allows { to be detected consistently
2) SOLVED: you only can change the options once.
Is there a more elegant solution than what I have come up with? Here is the code:
function updateTextArea() {
//get all of the text selections, and put them in an array
var foo = [];
$('.selector :selected').each(function (i, selected) {
foo[i] = $(selected).text();
});
//get the paragraph content, and store it
var safe_content = $('#the-text').html();
//delete all the options
$('.selector').text('');
//get the text without the dropdown options
var content = $('#the-text').html();
//create a regex expression to detect the remaining drop-down code
var pattern = "<select class=\"selector\"></select>",
re = new RegExp(pattern, "g");
//replace all the drop-down selections with {
content = content.replace(re, "{");
//turn the content into an array
content_array = content.split(" ");
//go through the array, and if a element is {, go to "foo" and replace it with the selected option
var length = content_array.length,
element = null;
var j = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
element = content_array[i];
if (element == "{") {
content_array[i] = foo[j];
j++;
}
}
//turn the array back into a paragraph
new_content = content_array.join(" ");
//replace the text with the origionanl text
$('#the-text').html(safe_content);
//put the new content into the text area
$('#text-area').val(new_content);
}
$(document).ready(function () {
updateTextArea();
});
$(".selector").change(function () {
updateTextArea();
});

You are splitting text based on " " (using space) and replacing element { with array value but text is. {, and contains comma i.e., {, is not equal to {. Add space after element {. This solves your first problem.
As you are removing and adding select options dynamically in function updateTextArea(). You have to use .on() to attach event handler for dynamically created elements.
Try:
$( document ).on("change",".selector",function() {
updateTextArea();
});
Instead of
$(".selector").change(function () {
updateTextArea();
});
DEMO FIDDLE

Strip tags from text in Javascript and replace BR with linebreaks inside textarea

I need to import some formatted html text in a input textarea value
i use jquery
so what's the best way to do it?
i guess first off i need to replace the then strip out the rest (bold, italic, images etc..)

In my first response I didn't see that you wanted to retain line breaks, so here's a better version. It replaces br with an unlikely string %%br%% and then at the end replaces them with new line (\n). So if that string actually appears in the text, it will be replaced by a new line. You can change that to anything you like, just make it something that is unlikely to be encountered in the text.
<script>
function removeMarkup(m) {
var d = document.createElement('div');
d.innerHTML = m;
var c = 0;
// Make brString something that should never appear in the text
// and has no special meaning in a RegExp
var brString = '%%br%%'
var re = new RegExp('\\s*' + brString + '\\s*','g');
function getTextWithReturns(node) {
var tag = node.tagName && node.tagName.toLowerCase();
var nodes = node.childNodes;
var type = node.nodeType;
var s = '';
// Deal with br
if (tag == 'br') {
return brString;
}
if (nodes && nodes.length) {
for (var i=0, iLen=nodes.length; i<iLen; i++) {
s += getTextWithReturns(nodes[i]);
}
} else if (type == 3 || type == 4) {
s += node.nodeValue
}
return s;
}
return reduceWhitespace(getTextWithReturns(d)).replace(re,'\n');
}
function reduceWhitespace(s) {
return s.replace(/^\s*/,'').replace(/\s*$/,'').replace(/\s+/g,' ');
}
</script>
<div id="d0">some text <i>more</i> text
<p>Here is a paragraph with some <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> text, plus a <span>span</span> and a line break break break<br> about there.</p>
<p>Here is another paragraph with some <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> text, plus plus a <span>span</span> and a line break <br> here.</p>
</div>
<form>
<textarea id="ta0" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<button type="button" onclick="
var ta = document.getElementById('ta0');
var div = document.getElementById('d0');
ta.value = removeMarkup(div.innerHTML);
">Set value</button><input type="reset">
</form>

$("#my_textarea").change(function(){
var cleanText = $("<span />").html(this.value);
this.value = cleanText.text();
});
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6WbXN/