Question

How do I get the text “there” that comes after a tag in an html document:

<p><a>hello</a>there</p>

I see that there is a way to do it with xpath:

Get text from next tag

but I’m not using xpath and am hoping not to have to start just for this. I realize that I can get ALL the text inside the p tag, but I want to get just the “there” text, as well as know its relationship to the p and a tags. It doesn’t seem to be anyone’s child or sibling. (You can assume that I can get any of the other elements/nodes so it can be relative to those.) Every DOM tutorial seems to ignore the fact that text can occur outside tags.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use several ways to get the tag and the text

let p = document.querySelector('p'); // first p on the page
console.log(p.lastChild.textContent)

let ps = document.querySelectorAll('p'); // all p on the page
console.log(ps[0].lastChild.textContent)

// using tagName
p = document.getElementsByTagName('p')[0];
console.log(p.childNodes[1].textContent)

<p><a>hello</a>there</p>