How to take the text of an element, excluding the text of nested elements from it?

Question

Java

There is the following HTML markup:

<a id="a">
    ASD
    <small>BHA</small>
</a>

I only need to get "ASD" but when I do a.text() with jsoup it outputs "ASD BHA".

Answer 1

Nobody reads the documentation :(
a.ownText()