The Ul object represents an HTML <ul> element.
We can access a <ul> element via document.getElementById()
:
var x = document.getElementById("myUL");
Click the button to get the id of the unordered list.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <ul id="myUL"> <li>CSS</li> <li>HTML</li> <li>Java</li> </ul>/*from w w w .j ava 2s . c o m*/ <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() { var x = document.getElementById("myUL").id; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; } </script> </body> </html>