Text

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The Text interface represents a text node in a DOM tree.

To understand what a text node is, consider the following document:

html

<html lang="en" class="e">
  <head>
    <title>Aliens?</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Why yes.
  </body>
</html>

In that document, there are five text nodes, with the following contents (all spaces are shown as ◦ and all newlines as ⏎):

Each of those text nodes is an object that has the properties and methods documented in this article.

Constructor

Text(): Returns a new Text node with the parameter as its textual content.

Inherits properties from its parents, CharacterData, Node, and EventTarget.

Text.assignedSlot Read only: Returns a HTMLSlotElement representing the <slot> the node is inserted in.
Text.wholeText Read only: Returns a string containing the text of all Text nodes logically adjacent to this Node, concatenated in document order.