JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by David Thomas

JavaScript

var editText = "<span class='hover-content' data-hover-id='2' >Some text</span>",
    tmp = document.createElement('div');
tmp.innerHTML = editText;
tmp.style.display = 'none';
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(tmp);
var hoverId = tmp.getElementsByTagName('span')[0].getAttribute('data-hover-id');
tmp.parentNode.removeChild(tmp);

alert(hoverId);