Question

i am writing some code which need to access a div which contains the particular text
following is the small portion of code i am working on:

var txtElem = txtdiv.getElementsByTagName("div");
txtElem[9].style.border = "2px solid blue";

as seen above i am accessing particular div with the index number, but now i want to add more code which can return me index of div from txtElem which contains the selected text from page

Answer 1

Try the code below

 var txtElem = txtdiv.getElementsByTagName("div");

 for ( var i = 0; i < txtElem.length; i++) {
    if(txtElem[i].innerHTML === "The text in the div") {
       //i is the index of the div that contains the text you searched on
       alert(i);
    }
 }