Is it possible to get the value of a element using onclick?

Question

I currently have a table that has a list of email template names being echoed using php. Below is part of the php code. I\'m trying to grab the table value and pass it to

Answer 1

Javascript:

var y = document.getElementById("test").innerText;

jQuery:

$("#test").text();

To get the HTML:

var html = document.getElementById("test" ).innerHTML;

jQuery:

$("#test").html();