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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Getting and Setting Text with textContent and innerHTML

Posted by MIHA W.LEE
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MIHA W.LEE
PHP Development Techdegree Graduate 25,452 Points

InnerHTML and textContent

I already watch the tutorial, but both sides can change text, whats the really difference between this two? Thank you so much.

1 Answer

Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
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Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
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The innerHTML property lets you insert HTML into an element, whereas the textContent property only lets you insert text.

If I had a div element and I set its innerHTML to <h1>Title</h1>, then this new H1 element would be inserted into the element. But if I used textContent, then the H1 opening and closing tags would literally just show as text and would not be rendered as an H1 element in the HTML.

MIHA W.LEE
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MIHA W.LEE
PHP Development Techdegree Graduate 25,452 Points

Thank you so much!! You explained very detailed!