It would be realy, realy great if "free" text nodes would also be matched in the core jQuery functionality.
eg.
<form>
here is some text
<input ... /> some more text
<hr />
and more text
</form>
$('form').children().... does not select the "free" text nodes within
the form. Without the plugin there is no simple solution to modify
this text.
Thx & regards, Willi
