Comment by Theresa on "HTML Elements - Selecting the Text. How?" | Hashnode

Theresa

Front End Web Developer (JS/HTML/CSS @ JAVA) : Predict the future by inventing it

Sep 30, 2016

Did you try

var span = document.getElementsByClassName("yourSpan");
console.log(span.item(0).firstChild.textContent);

TheSheriff

Co-Founder, Founder, Entrepreneur & Problem Solver

Sep 30, 2016

I appreciate your answer however that doesn't work and please see @fibric answer :)

Theresa

Front End Web Developer (JS/HTML/CSS @ JAVA) : Predict the future by inventing it

Sep 30, 2016

Odd... this works fine for script tag inserted just before body closing tag with an init function that is called within the opening tag of the body :) did acknowledge fibrics answer. There is always more than one way to do things. No matter

TheSheriff

Co-Founder, Founder, Entrepreneur & Problem Solver

Oct 1, 2016

@isogramc This only works for elements with no children. Thanks for the ack. And yea I agree! haha. @mevrael answer is interesting too.

Theresa

Front End Web Developer (JS/HTML/CSS @ JAVA) : Predict the future by inventing it

Oct 2, 2016

span.item(0).firstchild.textContent

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