Question

I have a page containing the following div element:

<div id="myDiv" class="myDivClass" style="">Some Value</div>

How would I retrieve the value (“Some Value”) either through JQuery or through standard JS? I tried:

var mb = document.getElementById("myDiv");

But the debugger console shows “mb is null”. Just wondering how to retrieve this value.

—- UPDATE —-
When I try the suggestion I get: $ is not a function

This is part of a JQuery event handler where I am trying to read the value when I click a button. The handler function is working but it can’t interpret the jQuery value it seems:

jQuery('#gregsButton').click(function() { 
   var mb = $('#myDiv').text();
   alert("Value of div is: " + mb.value); 
});

Answer 1

myDivObj = document.getElementById("myDiv");
if ( myDivObj ) {
   alert ( myDivObj.innerHTML ); 
}else{
   alert ( "Alien Found" );
}

Above code will show the innerHTML, i.e if you have used html tags inside div then it will show even those too. probably this is not what you expected. So another solution is to use: innerText / textContent property [ thanx to bobince, see his comment ]

function showDivText(){
            divObj = document.getElementById("myDiv");
            if ( divObj ){
                if ( divObj.textContent ){ // FF
                    alert ( divObj.textContent );
                }else{  // IE           
                    alert ( divObj.innerText );  //alert ( divObj.innerHTML );
                } 
            }  
        }