Get value of Span Text

Question

I have a span with class=\"span\" and a hidden field class=\"dropdown\".

The span text changes, and I need to grab the text an

Answer 1

The accepted answer is close... but no cigar!

Use textContent instead of innerHTML if you strictly want a string to be returned to you.

innerHTML can have the side effect of giving you a node element if there's other dom elements in there. textContent will guard against this possibility.