Question

I am grabbing a div from the document with :

var myTotal = window.document.getElementById('status').innerHTML;

which returns a big mess of HTML

<div id="foo"> 
<a href="bar" onclick='_gaq.push(["_trackEvent", "The", "Total",])'>
<img src="foo.gif" alt="foo" height="22px;/" width="15px;"></a> 
</div> 
<a href="bar" onclick='_gaq.push(["_trackEvent", "The", "Total",])'> 
MY TOTAL: 
<span style="font-size: 12px; color: #F3A428; font-weight:normal;"> 8 item(s) </span>
</a> 

Can one of you expression wizards please show me how I can grab just the number in the span, in this example an 8 ?

Answer 1

You can also try, just using innerText

window.document.getElementById('status').innerText.replace(/[^0-9]/gi, '');

http://jsfiddle.net/X9ffE/