Added support for .text() on text nodes. Fixes #5525.

src/manipulation.js

@@ -31,19 +31,21 @@ if ( !jQuery.support.htmlSerialize ) {
 
 jQuery.fn.extend({
 	text: function( text ) {
-		if ( typeof text !== "object" && text !== undefined )
+		if ( typeof text !== "object" && text !== undefined ) {
 			return this.empty().append( (this[0] && this[0].ownerDocument || document).createTextNode( text ) );
+		}
 
 		var ret = "";
 
-		jQuery.each( text || this, function(){
-			jQuery.each( this.childNodes, function(){
-				if ( this.nodeType !== 8 ) {
-					ret += this.nodeType !== 1 ?
-						this.nodeValue :
-						jQuery.fn.text( [ this ] );
-				}
-			});
+		jQuery.each( this, function() {
+			// Get the text from text nodes and CDATA nodes
+			if ( this.nodeType === 3 || this.nodeType === 4 ) {
+				ret += this.nodeValue;
+
+			// Traverse everything else, except comment nodes
+			} else if ( this.nodeType !== 8 ) {
+				ret += jQuery.fn.text.call( this.childNodes );
+			}
 		});
 
 		return ret;

test/unit/manipulation.js

@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ var bareObj = function(value) { return value; };
 var functionReturningObj = function(value) { return (function() { return value; }); };
 
 test("text()", function() {
-	expect(1);
+	expect(2);
 	var expected = "This link has class=\"blog\": Simon Willison's Weblog";
 	equals( jQuery('#sap').text(), expected, 'Check for merged text of more then one element.' );
+
+	// Check serialization of text values
+	equals( jQuery(document.createTextNode("foo")).text(), "foo", "Text node was retreived from .text()." );
 });
 
 var testWrap = function(val) {