<!DOCTYPE html>
<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>