how to select nodes which contains only plain text?

[xieranmaya]

like the below: <ul>

<li>li1</li> <li>li2</li> <li>

<h4>a h4</h4> <ul>

<li>li3</li> <li>li4</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul> $("li") will return 5 elements but i only want 4 elements. i want to select the li1,li2,li3 and li4,but i can't find a good way to select them if i do not assign them a className. i'm think would you add a ":header" or ":input" like pseudo class to select the nodes only contains plain text or contains nothing??

[dmethvin]

This isn't a bug report. Please ask for help on the jQuery group:

​http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/topics?gvc=2