CharacterData: data property
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.
Thedata property of theCharacterData interface represent the value of the current object's data.
Value
A string with the character information contained in theCharacterData node.
When set to thenull value, thatnull value is converted to the empty string (""), socd.data = null is equivalent tocd.data = "".
Example
Note:CharacterData is an abstract interface.The examples below use two concrete interfaces implementing it,Text andComment.
Reading a comment using data
html
<!-- This is an HTML comment --><output></output>js
const comment = document.body.childNodes[1];const output = document.getElementById("result");output.value = comment.data;Setting the content of a text node using data
html
<span>Result: </span>Not set.js
const span = document.querySelector("span");const textNode = span.nextSibling;textNode.data = "This text has been set using 'textNode.data'.";Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # dom-characterdata-data |
Browser compatibility
See also
CharacterData.lengthreturning the length of the data contained in theCharacterDatanode.