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Answer 1

A:

element.firstChild.data;

Get the data in the text node contained in the element. If you want the text and not HTML that represents it, don't use innerHTML.

David Dorward 2010-05-26 17:59:08

This only works as long as firstChild is a textNode, but if thats guaranteed then its a good fit.

Sean Kinsey 2010-05-26 18:07:27

True, but the question implied that was the case.

David Dorward 2010-05-26 18:08:34

Answer 2

+4 A:

You can use

 return ("innerText" in node) ? node.innerText : node.textContent;

innerHTML will returns the equivalent HTML that would provide the text that you see.

Sean Kinsey 2010-05-26 18:00:13

Not supported by Firefox last time I checked. http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_html.html

David Dorward 2010-05-26 18:02:13

I just remembered that as well and fixed the code

Sean Kinsey 2010-05-26 18:04:42

Thank you very much for your reply.This is working in Chrome and Mozilla. i need to test this in IE also

Deepa 2010-05-27 17:53:12

javascript innerhtml issue