<html><head><style>div { border: 1px solid black; margin: 15px;}</style></head><body><p>Click the button get the node name of the DIV's last child node.</p><div id="myDIV"> <p>A P element - Second child in div</p> <span>A Span element - Fourth child in div</span></div><button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button><p><strong>Note:</strong> Whitespace inside elements is considered as text, and text is considered as nodes. Therefore, in this example, the first, third and fifth child of the div element is a #text node.</p><p id="demo"></p><script>function myFunction() { var x = document.getElementById("myDIV").lastChild.nodeName; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; }</script></body></html>