Get content of span

Question

how can I get the contents of span ? I\'m looking for a way for all of this to be vanilla, not jQuery

javascript (and a little jQuery)

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Answer 1

There is an issue here:

var text = document.getElementById('myInput');
text.text();

You never assigned the text of the input to any variable.

Following your pattern above, you could do:

var txt = document.getElementById('myInput'),
    txt = text.text();

The second variable updates the previous variable 'txt' to hold the text of the original 'txt' variable, which was a selector.

You could do this as well (vanilla javascript, jsfiddle):

var txt = document.getElementById('myInput').innerHTML;

//or

var txt = document.getElementById('myInput').textContent;