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Difference between innerText and textContent in HTML
April 14, 2024, 2:46 p.m. | Madhu Saini
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innerText
innerText retrieves or sets the text content of an element and all its descendants, and it is aware of the current styling applied to the elements. This means that if there are any styles applied to an element that hide it (like display: none), innerText will not return the text content of that element.
Here's an example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>innerText Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="exampleDiv">
This is some <span style="display: …
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