Comments on: Hatin’ on textContent and innerText

By: Dan Dean

Dan Dean — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:53:14 +0000

Glad you found it useful Kit!

By: Kit Menke

Kit Menke — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:21:41 +0000

The prototype version is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

By: Dan Dean

Dan Dean — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:05:56 +0000

@Jonah: That is nice and short. I think if I wrote this now I’d have started with the ternary format as well. What I don’t like about both of these, though, is the assumption that innerText exists…

By: Jonah Dempcy

Jonah Dempcy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:59:07 +0000

MooTools version:

Element.prototype.getText = function() {
    return $defined(this.textContent) ? this.textContent : this.innerText;
};

Though in MooTools you can just call get(‘text’) on an element.

By: Dan Dean

Dan Dean — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:32:19 +0000

@seb: I finally got around to updating this snippet using Object.isUndefined. Thanks again!

By: itska

itska — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:52:01 +0000

shuffle shuffle whine whine

By: Dan Dean

Dan Dean — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:45:44 +0000

@seb: Good point! I always forget to use those Object methods. I’ll update my implementation.

By: seb

seb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:39:45 +0000

more prototype way :)

getTextContent: function(element) {
  if (Object.isUndefined(element.textContent)) {
    return element.innerText;
  }
  return element.textContent;
}