title: Get Text Element
body: <p>I am a beginner. I am trying to pop up an alert box with the text contents of a <code>&lt;div&gt;</code>, but am getting <code>null</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Javascript: </p>
  
  <pre><code>alert(document.getElementById("ticker").value);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>HTML</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="Server"&gt;
      &lt;script src="Tick.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/asp:Content&gt;
  
  &lt;asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="Server"&gt;
              &lt;div   id="ticker"&gt;
                 Sample
              &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/asp:Content &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>