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Create ASP variable from text on page?

Hello,

I am not very good at scripting. Searched but could not find exactly what I needed. Hopefully one of you experts will be able to assist me.

I have a web page where I have defined editable sections for my customer through a hosted CMS. The CMS allows the user to edit data so long as a specific CSS class is applied to it. An editable section looks something like this:

<p class="editable>EmailAddress@123.com</p>

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My users will update the Email Address between the paragraph tags. So far so good. But, I also want to make the Email Address a link. So now I have something like this:

<p class="editable><a href="mailto:xxxxx">EmailAddress@123.com</a></p>

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So my question is, how am I able to grab the email address from between the paragraph tags and place it in the link before it? It shows xxxx in the link where i need the email address to be.

Thank you in advance.

Eyal

something like that:

var emailAddrP = getElementById('P_ID')
emailAddrP.innerHTML = '<a href="mailto:'+emailAddrP.innerText+'">'+emailAddrP.innerText+'</a>';

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Thanks for the answers.

pateljitu, this script does work, however, i was hoping to write the variable to the link instead of having it generated only onclick.