Use of document.getElementById in JavaScript

Question

Can someone explain what the document.getElementById("demo") line does in the example below?

I understand getElementById gets the id of demo but the id is <p id="demo"></p> What exactly is <p id="demo"></p> doing in this code?

document.getElementById("age") is clear as it gets the id of age which is the input.

function myFunction() {
  var age,voteable;
  age = document.getElementById("age").value;
  voteable = (age < 18)? "Too young" : "Old enough";
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = voteable;
}

<p>Click the button to check the age.</p>

Age:<input id="age" value="18" />
<p>Old enough to vote?</p>
<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

Answer 1

You're correct in that the document.getElementById("demo") call gets you the element by the specified ID. But you have to look at the rest of the statement to figure out what exactly the code is doing with that element:

.innerHTML=voteable;

You can see here that it's setting the innerHTML of that element to the value of voteable.

Answer 2

Consider

 var x = document.getElementById("age");

Here x is the element with id="age".

Now look at the following line

var age = document.getElementById("age").value;

this means you are getting the value of the element which has id="age"