HTMLElement: innerText property
The innerText
property of the HTMLElement
interface represents the rendered text content of a node and its descendants.
As a getter, it approximates the text the user would get if they highlighted the contents of the element with the cursor and then copied it to the clipboard.
As a setter this will replace the element's children with the given value, converting any line breaks into <br>
elements.
Note: innerText
is easily confused with Node.textContent
, but there are important differences between the two.
Basically, innerText
is aware of the rendered appearance of text, while textContent
is not.
Value
A string representing the rendered text content of an element.
If the element itself is not being rendered (for example, is detached from the document or is hidden from view), the returned value is the same as the Node.textContent
property.
Warning: Setting innerText
on a node removes all of the node's children
and replaces them with a single text node with the given string value.
Examples
This example compares innerText
with Node.textContent
.
Note how innerText
is aware of things like <br>
elements, and ignores hidden elements.
HTML
<h3>Source element:</h3>
<p id="source">
<style>
#source {
color: red;
}
#text {
text-transform: uppercase;
}
</style>
<span id="text">
Take a look at<br />
how this text<br />
is interpreted below.
</span>
<span style="display:none">HIDDEN TEXT</span>
</p>
<h3>Result of textContent:</h3>
<textarea id="textContentOutput" rows="6" cols="30" readonly>…</textarea>
<h3>Result of innerText:</h3>
<textarea id="innerTextOutput" rows="6" cols="30" readonly>…</textarea>
JavaScript
const source = document.getElementById("source");
const textContentOutput = document.getElementById("textContentOutput");
const innerTextOutput = document.getElementById("innerTextOutput");
textContentOutput.value = source.textContent;
innerTextOutput.value = source.innerText;
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # the-innertext-idl-attribute |
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