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#  Overview
The **`text` method** extracts the text content from the given element. This won't include the child elements. This method is provided by the **`Mojo::DOM`** module, which is an HTML/XML DOM parser with CSS selectors.

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## Syntax
```
$dom->at('html element')->text
```
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## Return value
This method will return the extracted text from the given element.

Let's look at an example of this:

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## Code
The given HTML is as follows:
```
<div>
   Inside div 
   <p id="a">Inside first paragraph </p>
   <p id="b">Inside second paragraph</p>
</div>
```
If we extract the text content from the given element `div`, we will get the following output for the given HTML:

```
Inside div 
``` 


use 5.010;
use Mojo::DOM;

# Parse the html
my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new('<div>Inside div <p id="a">Inside first paragraph </p><p id="b">Inside second paragraph</p></div>');

# Extract the text content for the given element
say $dom->at('div')->text;

example

## Explanation
In the code snippet above: 
* In line 2, we import the `Mojo::DOM` module.
* In line 5, we parse the HTML and store it in the `$dom` scalar.
* In line 8, we extract the text content from the given element `div` and print it to the console.

## Explanation
In the code snippet above: 
* In line 2, we import the `Mojo::DOM` module.
* In line 5, we parse the HTML and store it in the `＄dom` scalar.
* In line 8, we extract the text content from the given element `div` and print it to the console.

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What is Mojo::DOM text?

The text method of Mojo::DOM extracts text from an element without including child elements.