Difference between textContent, innerHTML, innerText

Difference between textContent, innerHTML, innerText

The Node.textContent property represents the text content of a node and its descendants.

var text = element.textContent;
element.textContent = "this is some sample text";

textContent Description:

textContent returns null if the element is a document, a document type, or a notation. To grab all of the text and CDATA data for the whole document, one could use document.documentElement.textContent.

If the node is a CDATA section, a comment, a processing instruction, or a text node, textContent returns the text inside this node (the nodeValue). For other node types, textContent returns the concatenation of the textContent attribute value of every child node, excluding comments and processing instruction nodes. This is an empty string if the node has no children.

Notice: Setting this property on a node removes all of its children and replaces them with a single text node with the given value.

Differences from innerText:

Internet Explorer introduced element.innerText. The intention is similar but with the following differences: * While textContent gets the content of all elements, including <script> and <style> elements, the IE-specific property innerText does not. * innerText is aware of style and will not return the text of hidden elements, whereas textContent will. * As innerText is aware of CSS styling, it will trigger a reflow, whereas textContent will not, which makes the textContent more fast.

Differences from innerHTML:

innerHTML returns the HTML as its name indicates. Quite often, in order to retrieve or write text within an element, people use innerHTML. textContent should be used instead. Because the text is not parsed as HTML, it’s likely to have better performance. Moreover, this avoids an XSS attack vector. Notice: The textContent was introduced after IE 8(exclusive),