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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Modifying Elements

Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points
Posted by Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points

Why can't you use the innerText method in dot notation?

I tried reading up on it on the MDN but no luck. Anyone know why you have use it like this instead?

element.innerText = "string";

instead of 

element.innerText("string");

By the way, I HATE the MDN documentation. It's worthless if you're trying to find things.

1 Answer

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Technically it is still dot notation, hence the dot after the element you are calling it on. The difference is that InnerText is a property of a block-level element, not a method.

Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points
Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points

Awesome. That makes complete sense now.