SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/dot-luv/jquery-ui.css">
<div class="para">
  <h1 class="hd">heading 1</h1>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc tincidunt pharetra         est, quis facilisis purus elementum ut. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.
</div>

JavaScript

$(".para").click(function() {
 alert($(this).clone().children("h1").remove().end().text());
});