jquery exclude some child nodes from .text()

Question

The html structure looks like this

<div id="parent">
    parent may contain text
    <div id="child1">
       child 1 may contain text
       <script>console.log('i always contain something');</script>`
    </div>

    <div id="child2">
       child2 may contian text
    </div>    
</div> 

I am trying to get contents of every node except the contents of <script>. The result should look like this:

    parent may contain text
    child 1 may contain text 
    child2 may contian text

I've tried using ($('#parent').not('div script').text() ,but it does not work

Answer 1

You can achieve that by cloning your node, removing the script tags and retrieving the text() value:

var content = $('#parent').clone();
content.find('script').remove();
console.log(content.text());

DEMO

You should clone the node in order to asure an unchanged DOM tree afterwards.