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Asked: 2026-06-09T19:31:48+00:00

Assuming I have some HTML with untagged content, e.g: <html> <body> <p>text in a

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Assuming I have some HTML with untagged content, e.g:

<html>
<body>
<p>text in a tag</p>
other text outside any tag
</body>
</html>

How can I get to the untagged element? Even document.getElementsByTagName(‘*’) does not contain the untagged element.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just in your case you can do simply

    document.getElementById('body').lastChild

    However in a more general case you need to loop through children and check for 

    a = document.getElementById('body').lastChild

console.log(a.nodeType) // 3
console.log(a.nodeName) // #text

    Here is example on jsfiddle

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