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| Inherits from: | CharacterData object | ||||||
| JavaScript syntax: | IE | myTextNode = myDocument.all.tags("TEXT")[anIndex] | |||||
| - | myTextNode = myDocument.createTextNode(someData) | ||||||
| Argument list: | someData | Textual content for the text node | |||||
| anIndex | A selector within a collection of text nodes | ||||||
| Object properties: | data, length | ||||||
| Object methods: | splitText() | ||||||
The MSIE browser models the document as a collection of nodes. Clearly, an HTML tag corresponds to an object. However, what isn't so obvious is that the text in between HTML tags is collected together and represented by a textNode object.
These textNodes are generally accessible as child objects belonging to an object instantiated by an HTML tag.
For example:
AAA<P>BBB<P>CCC
can be accessed as follows:
The <P> tags are objects which are members of the document.getElementsByTagName("P") collection. The text "BBB" is referenced through the firstChild property of the P object instantiated by the first <P> tag. The text "CCC" is a textNode object referenced via the firstChild property of the second <P> tag.
The DOM level 3 specification is expected to add the following method to the textNode object:
isWhitespaceInElementContent()
| See also: | Attribute.nodeName, Document.createTextNode() |
| Property | JavaScript | JScript | N | IE | Opera | NES | ECMA | DOM | CSS | HTML | Notes |
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| data | 1.5  | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 |  | | | 1 | | | - |
| length | 1.5 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | | | | 1 | | | ReadOnly. |
| Method | JavaScript | JScript | N | IE | Opera | NES | ECMA | DOM | CSS | HTML | Notes |
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| splitText() | 1.5 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | | | | 1 | | | - |
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