JQuery selector to ignore an element?

Question

I am extracting article page content.

One selector, "entry": $('div.content__article-body').html().trim() gets the main article body. This mostly comprises text paragraphs with their <p> and header tags, which is just what I want. However, it also gets an element I don't want, which is <aside>. How can I ensure <aside> is NOT included in the resulting text?

I have read threads on here about "not". I have tried things like ...

$('div.content__article-body').not('aside').html().trim()

$('div.content__article-body').html().not('aside').trim()

$('div.content__article-body:not(aside)').html().trim() or $('div.content__article-body:not('aside')').html().trim() - not sure.

But none of these seems to work. Am I misforming how to use "not"?

Update: Excerpt below (aside is basically a box-out within the article)...

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<div class="content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body" itemprop="articleBody" data-test-id="article-review-body">
<p>A wise man once <a href="http://www.quora.com/Who-originally-suggested-that-if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">said</a>: “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.” That’s what is happening in the magazine world, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/06/nme-to-go-free-with-larger-circulation" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">NME abandons its cover price</a> after 63 years, to go free.<br></p>
<p>In doing so, the title is turning its readers from customers in to advertiser targets. But NME is far from the first property to try this trick. <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-11-13/features/1996318156_1_village-voice-schneiderman-circulation" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">The Village Voice</a>, the <a href="http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-wmids/shrewsbury-chronicle/" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">Shrewsbury Chronicle</a>, the <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HU1aAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=KSgMAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1120%2C535142" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">Standard</a> of Hong Kong, <a href="https://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/419-friends-reunited-dropping-subscriptions-to-go-free-ad-supported-report/" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">Friends Reunited</a>, the <a href="https://gigaom.com/2009/10/02/419-london-evening-standard-bold-re-birth-or-a-free-folly/" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">Evening Standard</a>, the <a href="http://www.fulhamsw6.com/default.asp?section=info&amp;spage=common/contrinity001.htm" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle</a>, Time Out in <a href="https://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/419-time-out-seeking-investors-could-go-free-and-beef-up-online/" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">London</a> and <a href="http://www.timeout.com/about/time-out-group/latest-news/time-out-new-york-announces-launch-of-its-magazine-to-free-weekly-distribution" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">New York</a>, and now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jul/08/the-sun-lowers-its-paywall-allowing-free-access-to-many-stories" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">parts of the Sun’s website</a> are all among those to have dropped their fees in favour of frees.</p>
<p>But what has become of the converts? And what do their fortunes since tell us, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/nme" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline">NME</a> and other operators about the key ingredients for a successful switch?</p>
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<h1 class="rich-link__title">Old media's prospects have improved but the new media threat looms large</h1>
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<a class="rich-link__link u-faux-block-link__overlay" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/mar/20/new-media-threat-buzzfeed-vice" aria-label="Old media's prospects have improved but the new media threat looms large"></a>
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<h2>1. Know your predicament</h2>
<p>It would be nice to say the switch to free comes either out of benevolence or out of a market opportunity. The reality is, operators invariably flick the switch under external pressure of a poor business outlook – no amount of dressing up as a “bold relaunch” can change that.</p>
<p>NME’s circulation was falling by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/13/nme-relaunch-sales-slide-ipc-media" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">around a fifth annually</a>. The Evening Standard was frustrated to find itself far behind national dailies on ad planners’ schedules, locking it out of big brand bucks, according to someone familiar with the strategy to switch.</p>
<p>The Village Voice dropped its cover charge in 1996 after being eaten into by rival New York Press being given away in green sidewalk boxes, while Hong Kong’s Standard newspaper was forced to act when the government removed a decree that listed companies must buy classified ads in newspapers. But the key – as anyone who has heard the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog" rel="nofollow" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">boiling frog</a>” allegory will know – is to recognise when it is your time to change tack.</p>

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

var e = $('.box').html();
console.log(e);

var subStr = e.match("<aside>(.*?)</aside>");
var r = e.replace(subStr[0], "");

console.log(r);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="box">
  Some text here
  <p>More text here</p>
  <aside>this is an <span>aside</span></aside>
</div>

Or you create another element then you remove the aside node:

var e = $('.box').html();
var newE = $('<div>'+e+'</div>');
newE.find('aside').remove();
console.log(newE.html());

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="box">
  Some text here
  <p>More text here</p>
  <aside>this is an <span>aside</span></aside>
</div>

Answer 2

With the .not() method, do like this, expand the selector to div.content__article-body > * so it target the div's siblings, and then loop through the result.

The usage of the child selector > allow to exclude any elements inside aside though that will also affect the other elements too, and to bring their children back in the output, use .outerHTML.

Stack snippet

$('div.content__article-body > *').not('aside').each( function( index, value ) {
  console.log( value.outerHTML );
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div class="content__article-body">

    <p>some paragraph <span>some span</span></p>

    <div>some div</div>

    <aside>an aside <div>some div in aside</div></aside>

</div>

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And with the :not() selector.

Stack snippet

$('div.content__article-body > *:not(aside)').each( function( index, value ) {
  console.log( value.outerHTML );
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div class="content__article-body">

  <p>some paragraph <span>some span</span></p>

  <div>some div</div>

  <aside>an aside <div>some div in aside</div></aside>

</div>

Answer 3

Try this.

$("div.content_article-body *:not(aside)");