blockname can not contain html

For my blockdescription module (http://drupal.org/project/blockdescription) I want to display the block descriptions on the context page.
This works, except for the fact that the following line:

var text = $(this).parents('div.form-item').eq(0).hide().children('label').text();

removes the html from the element, which doesn't work good when the themed description contains html. The default html is:

blockname<br />
<i>blockdescription</i>

For this, I've created a patch which gets the HTML and removes the checkbox from it.