Textcontent vs Innerhtml JavaScript DOM - Part 4 - innerHTML vs innerText vs textContent [video + article]

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This is going to be a multi-part Video + article tutorial series on JavaScript DOM. You're reading Part 4

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innerText | innerHTML | textContent

All three of them are attributes that you can get from the elements. They are not the same and we will be looking at how they are different with the below illustrations.

innerText

When applied to an element, it returns only the text which is inside the element, the text part wrapped by the element and nothing else, it also ignores the space.

syntax:

element.innerText

example:

<p id="experiment">
  <br />
  Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
  <br />
</p>

let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.innerText)

output

"
Hello this is Tharun How are you?
"

innerHTML

When applied to an element, it returns the text part enclosed by the element, along with the HTML tags inside, and also considers the spacing given inside. Look at the example below.

syntax:

element.innerHTML

example:

<p id="experiment">
  <br />
  Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
  <br />
</p>

let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.innerHTML)

output

"
  <br>
  Hello this is <span>Tharun<span/> How are you?
  <br>
"

textContent

When applied to an element, it returns the text part enclosed by the element and considers the spacing given inside. Look at the example below.

syntax:

element.textContent

example:

<p id="experiment">
  <br />
  Hello this is <span>Tharun</span> How are you?
  <br />
</p>

let p = document.getElementById('experiment');
console.log(p.textContent)

output

"

  Hello this is Tharun How are you?

"

So these are the main differences between these three that you need to know.
You can access and do a lot more magic by grabbing the elements. We will explore and do stuff in this series.

Next Part coming tomorrow, where we discuss about how you can get multiple elements by using getElementsByClassName.

Thank you for reading 😊