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All text within elements is in the form of #text nodes, these are accesible via the DOM.

First you find the span element.

Code:

var myspan = document.getElementById(’myspan’);

Assuming there is nothing but text within it, we can get the text node like this:

Code:

var span_textnode = myspan.firstChild;

Then use the data property to get the actual text:

Code:

var span_text = span_textnode.data;

innerHTML and innerText are non-standard properties. The DOM method shown above is far superior and more robust as it works with the parsed DOM tree; rather than editing the in-memory source code which then has to be reparsed (less efficient and risking syntactic errors).

? It work prefectly in IE and Opera? and? also? Firefox.

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