How to get the content of a tag without the content of the child elements?

Question

JavaScript

Hello! There is a similar code structure

<div id="a">
Самый важный текст
<a id="b">Менее важный</a>
<a id="c">Вообще не нужен</a>
</div>

How to use JS to get the text only from ID A. If I do it with the help , then it returns the contents of the nested tags to me. How to be? Jquery $("#a").text()

Answer 1

document.getElementById('a').firstChild