SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
 <div class="body"> 
 <a href="/question?id=70"><p>This is the text I want to extract</p></a> 
 </div>

JavaScript

$(function() {
    alert($("body").find("a p").text());
});