Text
BaselineWidely available *
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
TheText interface represents a textnode in a DOM tree.
To understand what a text node is, consider the following document:
<html lang="en"> <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 thetitleelement)"\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 thebodyelement)
Each of those text nodes is an object that has the properties and methods documented in this article.
Constructor
Text()Returns a new
Textnode with the parameter as its textual content.
Instance properties
Inherits properties from its parents,CharacterData,Node, andEventTarget.
Text.assignedSlotRead onlyReturns a
HTMLSlotElementrepresenting the<slot>the node is inserted in.Text.wholeTextRead onlyReturns a string containing the text of all
Textnodes logically adjacent to thisNode, concatenated in document order.
Instance methods
Inherits methods from its parent,CharacterData,Node, andEventTarget.
Text.splitTextBreaks the node into two nodes at a specified offset.
Specifications
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