jquery exclude some child nodes from .text()

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.

Try this:

($('#parent').text()).replace($('#parent script').text(),'');

Check out this Fiddle.

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