DOM/Javascript: get text after tag

Something like this?

var p = document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0];
alert(p.childNodes[1].textContent)

use this .. http://jsfiddle.net/2Dxy4/

This is your HTML --

<p id="there">
   <a>hello</a>
   there
</p>​

In your JS

alert(document.getElementById("there").lastChild.textContent)​

or

alert(document.getElementById("there").childNodes[1].textContent)​