Question

.val() get text with html tags?
Maybe .text(), but how to do this correctly?

Answer 1

var el = document.getElementById(elementId); // or just another HTML DOM element
var text = el.innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");

might do something close to what you want.

EDIT: This is what it does on Stack Overflow:

document.getElementById("portalLink").innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "")

in Chrome’s Console yields

"
            Stack Exchange
        "