Element Object
The textContent property returns or sets the text from the selected element.
On returning text, this property returns the value of all text nodes within the element node.
On setting text, this property removes all child nodes and replaces them with a single text node.
Note: This property does not work in Internet Explorer 9 (it returns undefined).
Return text:
Set text:
Tip: For setting and returning the text value from a node you should use the text node nodeValue property.
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets text nodes from the first <title> element:
The output of the code above will be:
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets text nodes from the first <book> element, and replaces all nodes with a new text node:
The output of the code above will be:
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