Code of the day: jQuery, Get comments from HTML elements.

Code of the day: Get comments from HTML elements.
Here’s a simple jquery plugin to get the comments from a HTML elements.

// source code for $.fn.getComments()
$(function () {
/**
* $.fn.getComments() is used to extract the html comments from a HTML elements.
* 
* @author Larry Battle 
* @license MIT
* @date June 11, 2012
* @version 0.1
* @args {boolean} asArray - If true, returns an array of the comments values. 
		Otherwise returns jquery objects of the node comments.
* @example 
	HTML:
	
I am a div. 

	Javascript: 
	$("#example").getComments(true) // returns [ "Duh!" ]
*/
	var getCommentsFromEl = function (el, asArray) {
		var result,
		$el = $(el).contents();
		result = $el.filter(function () {
				return this.nodeType == 8;
			});
		if (asArray) {
			result = $.makeArray(result.map(function () {
						return this.nodeValue;
					}));
		}
		return result;
	};
	$.fn.getComments = function (asArray) {
		return getCommentsFromEl(this, asArray);
	};
});

Demo and testcases here: http://jsfiddle.net/96rux/

Fork this on Github.com
https://github.com/LarryBattle/jQuery.getComments