Trying to get value from paragraph element

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<p id="demo2">x</p>

I have inserted a value in this paragraph using an API now i am trying to get this value in some other method.

x is value from that API

What I have tried:

JavaScript

var area=document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML;

Posted 13-Feb-18 6:02am

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Updated 22-Feb-18 23:31pm

Patrice T

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Richard Deeming 13-Feb-18 12:54pm

What's the problem with the code you've tried?

Member 11986458 14-Feb-18 11:12am

not showing the value

David_Wimbley 14-Feb-18 11:21am

You need to post your html and javascript in its entirety as what you've got should work so something else is going on.

Richard Deeming 14-Feb-18 14:22pm

The code you've shown works as expected: Demo[^]

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Sarita Mall · Answer 1 · 2018-02-22T23:25:00

Hi,

your code is fine.please check what you are missing.

i have rewrite the code again and it is working find .

html part:

<p id="demo2">x</p>
 <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" OnClientClick="showValue()" />

Script:

<script type="text/javascript">
        function showValue() {
            var area = document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML;
            alert(area);
        }
    
    </script>