jquery firstChild.data equivalent
<p>Is there an equivalient of the firstChild.data in JQuery?</p>

<p>Given the following HTML :</p>

<pre><code>&lt;p id='test'&gt;Hello&lt;span&gt;world&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;p&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>the below javascipt will return : "Hello"</p>

<pre><code>document.getElementById('test').firstChild.data
</code></pre>

<p>the given JQuery will return : <code>Hello&lt; span&gt;world&lt;/span&gt;</code></p>

<pre><code>$('#test').text()
</code></pre>

<p>how can I achieve this?</p>
