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innerText | innerHTML | textContent
All three of them are attributes that you can get from the elements. They are not the same and we will be looking at how they are different with the below illustrations.
innerText
When applied to an element, it returns only the text which is inside the element, the text part wrapped by the element and nothing else, it also ignores the space.
syntax:
element.innerText
example:
<p id="experiment">
<br />
Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
<br />
</p>
let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.innerText)
output
"
Hello this is Tharun How are you?
"
innerHTML
When applied to an element, it returns the text part enclosed by the element, along with the HTML tags inside, and also considers the spacing given inside. Look at the example below.
syntax:
element.innerHTML
example:
<p id="experiment">
<br />
Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
<br />
</p>
let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.innerHTML)
output
"
<br>
Hello this is <span>Tharun<span/> How are you?
<br>
"
textContent
When applied to an element, it returns the text part enclosed by the element and considers the spacing given inside. Look at the example below.
syntax:
element.textContent
example:
<p id="experiment">
<br />
Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
<br />
</p>
let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.textContent)
output
"
Hello this is Tharun How are you?
"
So these are the main differences between these three that you need to know.
You can access and do a lot more magic by grabbing the elements. We will explore and do stuff in this series.
Next Part coming tomorrow, where we discuss about how you can get multiple elements by using getElementsByClassName.
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Top comments (7)
These differences were always confusing. Good article. Now I get it. 👍
thank you, glad it helped
Yeah, same here
thank you, glad it helped
Good series.. Looking forward for more
Sure, 10 more parts to the series, then we move on to the project 😊
please add here only 6 are here