Does any one know innerText alternative of a span in mozilla? My span is
<span id='cell1'></span>
and the javascript is
document.getElementById('cell1').innerText = 'Tenelol';
But Mozilla is not supporting this!!
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innerText is a proprietary IE thing. The W3C defines textContent as the official property.
An easy way is to exploit the || logical operator and its short circuiting nature, as well as JavaScript returning the last evaluated value in a condition (most times the truthy operand).
var body = document.body,
text = body.textContent || body.innerText;
(Note in the fiddle I checked for the innerText first. This was only because most people on here do not use IE. IRL, check for textContent first, and fallback to innerText.)
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And since `textContent` is not supported by IE you'll have to use both. – Lawyerson May 16 '11 at 09:34
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for more reference http://help.dottoro.com/ljermebq.php – Vishwanath Dalvi May 16 '11 at 09:36
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@Parusa The fiddle may not be clear enough, I'll place the code inline :) – alex May 16 '11 at 09:36
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`textContent` and `innerText` can give you different results so it's not recommended to use both of them in or. http://www.kellegous.com/j/2013/02/27/innertext-vs-textcontent/ – Yuri May 11 '15 at 17:57
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@Yuri It depends on what you're going to do with it. In some cases, further massaging may be required. – alex May 12 '15 at 02:31