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HTML

<span class="we w_o_r_d_s" id="we" contenteditable="false">we</span>

JavaScript

var span = '<span class="we w_o_r_d_s" id="we" contenteditable="false">we</span>' 

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = span;


console.log(div.id);
console.log(div.attr('id'));
console.log(div.getAttribute('id'));

console.log(span.id);
console.log(span.attr('id'));
console.log(span.getAttribute('id'));

//I want the to log `we`