JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
by Palpatim
HTML
<html>
<body>
<h1>Here's the title</h1>
<div id="myElement">Here's a content div, with some spans. <span>Here's span 1.</span> And some more text, followed by <span>span 2</span>.
</div>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript
var $myElement = $('#myElement');
var firstSpan = $myElement.find('span')[0];
alert(firstSpan.html());