JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
by ChaseWest
HTML
<div class="class">
Here's some text that really should be in a p tag, but oh well
</div>
JavaScript
var text = $("div.class").text();
console.log(text);
text = "";
var el = document.getElementsByClassName("class")[0];
text = el.innerText;
console.log(text);