Assign div text to variable then show it

Question

I have a simple task I\'m trying to accomplish learning JavaScript but haven\'t been able to find a clear answer. Here\'s the code;

Answer 1

What you're doing is storing the DOM Object in the variable, not the text. You should access the innerHTML property to access the text.

var t = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;
t = t.trim(); // to remove the whitespaces before and after the div.
document.write(t);