Question

I currently have an href that I’d like to pull text from. Unfortunately I don’t have access to to code, and the limited code I have to work with is the following:

<div id="myDiv">
  <h1 class="myClass">
    <a href="link">TEXT</a>
  </h1>
</div>

I’d prefer using JavaScript to obtain this information. What would be the best way to reference ‘TEXT’? I’ve tried a couple methods using getElementById and getElementsByClassName, but each have proven unsuccessful. Thanks!

Answer 1

var text = document.getElementById('myDiv')
                   .getElementsByTagName('a')[0].innerHTML;
alert(text);​ // TEXT

Live DEMO

If you can use jQuery…:

var text = $('#myDiv .myClass a').text();