I have an HTML div element with an innerHTML of x number. Through javascript, I add children to the element with their own innerHTML and append it to the existing div. But I can no longer call innerHTML to get the x in an easy way. This is probably a popular question but I haven't found a solution that actually works. Is there any elegant way to do this with vanilla js or jquery? If there are any workaround like creating a variable that would be fine with me, but innerHTML I think is a good way to have both a variable and a visual representation.