hey try this please”: http://jsfiddle.net/MtVxx/2/
Good link for your specific case in here: http://viralpatel.net/blogs/jquery-get-text-element-without-child-element/ (This will only get the text of the element)
Hope this helps, :)
code
jQuery.fn.justtext = function() {
return $(this).clone()
.children()
.remove()
.end()
.text();
};
alert($('#mydiv').justtext());