[javascript] Replace only text inside a div using jquery

I have a div like:

<div id="one">
       <div class="first"></div>
       "Hi I am text"
       <div class="second"></div>
       <div class="third"></div>
</div>

I am trying to change only the text from "Hi I am text" to "Hi I am replace" using jquery. This might be easy but I am not able to do it.

Using $('#one').text('') just empties the whole #One div.

Just in case if you can't change HTML. Very primitive but short & works. (It will empty the parent div hence the child divs will be removed)

$('#one').text('Hi I am replace');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="one">_x000D_
  <div class="first"></div>_x000D_
  "Hi I am text"_x000D_
  <div class="second"></div>_x000D_
  <div class="third"></div>_x000D_
</div>

You need to set the text to something other than an empty string. In addition, the .html() function should do it while preserving the HTML structure of the div.

$('#one').html($('#one').html().replace('text','replace'));

If you actually know the text you are going to replace you could use

$('#one').contents(':contains("Hi I am text")')[0].nodeValue = '"Hi I am replace"';

http://jsfiddle.net/5rWwh/

Or

$('#one').contents(':not(*)')[1].nodeValue = '"Hi I am replace"';

$('#one').contents(':not(*)') selects non-element child nodes in this case text nodes and the second node is the one we want to replace.

http://jsfiddle.net/5rWwh/1/

Find the text nodes (nodeType==3) and replace the textContent:

$('#one').contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == 3
}).each(function(){
    this.textContent = this.textContent.replace('Hi I am text','Hi I am replace');
});

Note that as per the docs you can replace the hard-coded 3 in the above with Node.TEXT_NODE which is much clearer what you're doing.

$('#one').contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
}).each(function(){
    this.textContent = this.textContent.replace('Hi I am text','Hi I am replace');
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="one">
       <div class="first"></div>
       "Hi I am text"
       <div class="second"></div>
       <div class="third"></div>
</div>

Another approach is keep that element, change the text, then append that element back

const star_icon = $(li).find('.stars svg')
$(li).find('.stars').text(repo.stargazers_count).append(star_icon)