JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<div id="image_container">
</div>
<div id="testThisText">
See if you can grab this text with the javascript this var.
</div>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#testThisText').each(function(i,v){
var thisText = $(this).text();
console.log(thisText);
});
})