XML DOM length Property

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Definition and Usage

The length property returns the length of the text of a node (in characters).

Syntax

textNode.length

Example

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

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

document.write(x.data);
document.write(" - Length: ");
document.write(x.length);

The output of the code above will be:

Everyday Italian - Length: 16

Try-It-Yourself Demos

length - Get a text node's length

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