How to get the contents of a pre tag with JavaScript?

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Solution

`document.getElementsByTagName` will return a NodeList and not first element. So you will have to loop over list and fetch manually.

If its just one element, you can even look into `document.querySelector`. This will give you first element of given selector

var _html = document.getElementsByTagName('pre')[0].innerHTML;
console.log(_html)

var _query = document.querySelector('pre').innerHTML
console.log(_query)
<pre>43453453</pre>

Problem

How do I get a value from a 'pre' tag? `<pre>43453453</pre>` For example, I know how to get the tag, but how do I get the content inside it? ``` var x = documentGetElementsByTagName("pre"); ``` I tried using innerHTML, and textContent, but those didn't work for me.

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