Get paragraph text inside an element

Alternatively, you can also pass the li element itself to your myfunction function as shown:

function myfunction(ctrl) {
  var TextInsideLi = ctrl.getElementsByTagName('p')[0].innerHTML;
}

and in your HTML, <li onclick="myfunction(this)">


Do you use jQuery? A good option would be

text = $('p').text();


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Where to JavaScript</title>
    <!-- JavaScript in head tag-->
    <script>
        function changeHtmlContent() {
            var content = document.getElementById('content').textContent;
            alert(content);
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <h4 id="content">Welcome to JavaScript!</h4>
    <button onclick="changeHtmlContent()">Change the content</button>
</body>

Here, we can get the text content of h4 by using:

document.getElementById('content').textContent

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Javascript

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