Question

I have the following HTML

            <div>
                <label for="username">Username:</label>
                <input type="text" name="username" id="username" />
                <span>some text here</span>
            </div>

now I have referenced the input “username” in javaScript using getElementById rather easily but I need to locate (via javascript) the text of the label associated with the input, I’m thinking something like this:

document.getElement(thisName).parent.getElementsByTagName(‘label’)[0].innerHTML;

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

I think this is what you want:

document.getElementById('username').parentNode.getElementsByTagName('label')[0].innerHTML;