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JavaScript DOM Scripting By Example Editing and Filtering Names Editing and Filtering Names Review

Jiho Song
Jiho Song
16,469 Points
Posted by Jiho Song
Jiho Song
16,469 Points

What does it mean?

In the questions following, it says : text element behaves differently than other HTML elements

However I dont understand what it mean and why it matters??

Can anybody give me a hint on this?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

This is referring to the textContent and innerHTML methods.

With text content, you only get the text retrieved but with innerHTML you can retrieve and manipulate the HTML attributes of the element you;re targeting.