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XML DOM textContent Property


Attr Object Reference Attr Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and returns the textual content of the category attributes:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
��� if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
������� myFunction(xhttp);
��� }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var x, i, xmlDoc, txt;
    xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    txt = "";
    x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
    for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
        txt += x.item(i).attributes[0].textContent + "<br>";
    }
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = txt;
}

Output:

cooking
children
web
web
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Definition and Usage

The textContent property sets or returns the textual content of an attribute.

Syntax

attrObject.textContent

Try-It-Yourself Demos

textContent - Set the textual content of an attribute


Attr Object Reference Attr Object