how can i get the Value / Text of a <li> item ?
I found on the internet much ways to get the value for a dropdown list.
But not for a <li> item.
This is what I have tried so far:
var listt = document.getElementById('content1');
var selectedvalue = [listt.selectedIndex].text;
You can use the innerText property for most browsers, but the textContent property for Firefox:
<ul>
<li id="myLi">Hello, world</li>
</ul>
var li = document.getElementById("myLi")
console.log(li.textContent || li.innerText);
Here is a fiddle to demonstrate.
If you are using jQuery (you say you are, but I see no evidence) it would be as simple as using the .text() function:
$("#myLi").text();
If your <li> contains HTML markup too, you may want that. In this case you need to use the innerHTML property:
document.getElementById("myLi").innerHTML;
Again, jQuery has it's own equivalent .html() which caters for all sorts of different browsers:
$("#myLi").html();
Assuming myLi is a reference to the <li> element you want to get the text of, it's as simple as:
myLi.innerText
Note that <li> elements don't have values, because they're not inputs. They have content which can be a string of text or HTML defining other page elements. If your <li> element contained other elements, and you wanted the HTML of those as a string, you could instead do:
myLi.innerHTML
What's the difference? Let's assume your HTML looked like this:
<li><span>Some text</span></li>
Then
console.log(myLi.innerHTML); // outputs: <span>Some text</span>
console.log(myLi.innerText); // outputs: Some text
I would just use innerHTML if your list item has an ID or class name and assuming there is no other html in your list item.
<ul>
<li class="list-item">Item1</li>
<li class="list-item">Item2</li>
<li class="list-item">Item3</li>
</ul>
<script>
var list = document.getElementsByClassName('list-item');
var listArray=[];
for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++){
listArray.push(list[i].innerHTML);
console.log(listArray[i]);
}
</script>
//output
Item1
Item2
Item3
You could also try using the textContent property perhaps or innerHTML for that matter if you wanna get plain text.
var li_item=document.getElementById('content1');
console.log(li_item.textContent)
<li>element you want to get the text for? Does it have a specific ID? Does it have a unique class with a specific<ul>? Showing some of your HTML might help clear this up