html - Javascript find all text except those in <a> tag -

i have div, , div can (or cannot) have html elements children. javascript, need find occurrences of word inside div, except in <a> tag.

for example:

<div id="dictionable">     lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.      <br/><br/>     <a href="#lorem">lorem</a>     <br/><br/>     <p>lorem</p> </div> 

i tried ultra low capabilities build regex, failing miserably. googled , found this:

var pattern = new regexp('(lorem)(?![^<]*>|[^<>]*</)', 'gim'); 

this regex finds every occurrence of "lorem" not in every tag. need exclude tag.

could me?

no regex. absolutely no regex. nuh-uh. nope.

var copy = document.getelementbyid('dictionable').clonenode(true),     links = copy.getelementsbytagname('a'), l = links.length, i; for( i=l-1; i>=0; i--) {     // work in reverse order when deleting stuff, it's safer!     links[i].parentnode.removechild(links[i]); }  var result = copy.textcontent || copy.innertext; 

boom!