How to Get or Record the ID of a element with the current focus for later retrieval using javascript [closed]

Answer 1

This depends on the type of element, if you want a textual representation of the HTML within the element, use innerHTML

 document.getElementById("id").innerHTML

If you only want the text within the element and its descendants use textContent

 document.getElementById("id").textContent

Finally if you're working with <input> elements you could use value

 document.getElementById("id").value