Get element inside element by class and ID – JavaScript

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Well, first you need to select the elements with a function like getElementById.

var targetDiv = document.getElementById("foo").getElementsByClassName("bar")[0];

getElementById only returns one node, but getElementsByClassName returns a node list. Since there is only one element with that class name (as far as I can tell), you can just get the first one (that’s what the [0] is for—it’s just like an array).

Then, you can change the html with .textContent.

targetDiv.textContent = "Goodbye world!";


var targetDiv = document.getElementById("foo").getElementsByClassName("bar")[0];
targetDiv.textContent = "Goodbye world!";
<div id="foo">
    <div class="bar">
        Hello world!
    </div>
</div>

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