How to extract just text from html Element

[mknee40]

I can't figure out how to just extract only the text from the element.

For example:

    root.getElementsByTagName("p").map((elm) => {
        console.log(elm.text())
    });

throws an error TypeError: elm.text is not a function and the below returns the HTML elements in the child as a string e.g. "text text text <a href="">text</a>":

    root.getElementsByTagName("p").map((elm) => {
        console.log(elm.toString())
    });

What I want is to extract only the text from the element.

[Carcraftz]

.innerText or .textContent