Change the text of an element with id="demo" in a <div> element:
Click the button to change the text of the p element in div.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <div id="myDIV"> <p id="demo">This is a p element with id="demo" in a div.</p> </div>//from w w w . j a v a 2 s .c o m <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <script> function myFunction() { var x = document.getElementById("myDIV"); x.querySelector("#demo").innerHTML = "Hello World!"; } </script> </body> </html>