Get Text of a element

[nutt318]

Hello, I’m trying to figure out how I can get text below ‘My Text Here’ using javascript and cannot figure it out. I have a function called in the first

and here is the HTML setup.

Thanks!

 









My Text Here

Code to try and get text.

[Mottie]

Try this instead… it’s more direct (demo)

this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('span')[0].title

The problem with the code above is that the first child node isn’t the span, it’s a text node from the tab to format the HTML. So changing that to

this.parentNode.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling.childNodes[1].title

would also work, but it’s much more rigid in that if you change the number of table cells it will break.

[nutt318]

Thank you Mottie!

I did have to change the 0 to a 1 to get it to work, not sure why.

this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('span')[1].title

[Mottie]

I didn’t see your full HTML, but most likely there is more than one span in that table row.

[nutt318]

Not sure why but it doesnt like IE, I’ve tried it on firefox and chrome and it works great.

Any ideas on why IE doesnt work?

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