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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Appending Nodes

Hector Galicia-Milla
Hector Galicia-Milla
8,064 Points
Posted by Hector Galicia-Milla
Hector Galicia-Milla
8,064 Points

value vs textContent

I was just wondering for example why you can clear the input with input.value = ' ' but you cant do it with input.textContent= ' ' j5

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

The properties "value" and "textContent" represent different things. Any node has a "textContent", including text nodes which are not elements. It represents the text content of the node itself along with any and all descendants.

But only input elements have a "value". It represent the input data supplied by the user or provided initially by the code. Also, input elements may have a "textContent" property but it will always be empty since they are void elements.