Text
The Text
interface represents a text node
in a DOM tree.
To understand what a text node is, consider the following document:
<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:
"\n "
(after the<head>
start tag, a newline followed by four spaces)"Aliens?"
(the contents of thetitle
element)"\n "
(after the</head>
end tag, a newline followed by two spaces)"\n "
(after the<body>
start tag, a newline followed by two spaces)"\n Why yes.\n \n\n"
(the contents of thebody
element)
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.
Instance properties
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 thisNode
, concatenated in document order.
Instance methods
Inherits methods from its parent, CharacterData
, Node
, and EventTarget
.
Text.splitText
-
Breaks the node into two nodes at a specified offset.
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM Standard # interface-text |
Browser compatibility
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