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Mastering JavaScript DOM Manipulation: innerText vs innerHTML vs textContent
Aug. 26, 2023, 6:45 p.m. | Lakshit
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Most of us use innerText, innerHTML, and textContent daily, but we don't know the actual difference between them. These three methods are often used for manipulating text content within the HTML elements. In this blog, we'll be exploring the differences between them.
Let us try to understand it using 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 vs innerHTML vs textContent</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>Hello World!</div>
<div id="root">
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