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XML DOM text Property


Element Object Reference Element Object

Definition and Usage

The text property returns the value of all text nodes from the selected element.

Syntax

elementNode.text
 

Tips and Notes

Tip: For setting and returning the text value from a node you should use the text node nodeValue property.


Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets text nodes from the first <title> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];

document.write("Text Nodes: ");
document.write(x.text);

The output of the code above will be:

Text Nodes: Everyday Italian

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Element Object Reference Element Object
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