Name
Text
Description
A Text object represents a run of plain text without markup in a DOM document tree. Do not confuse it with the single-line text input element of HTML, which is represented by the Input object.
Properties
-
data
The string of text contained by this node.
-
length
The number of characters contained by this node. Read-only.
Methods
-
appendData(
text
)
Appends the specified
text
to this node and returns nothing.-
deleteData(
offset
,count
)
Deletes text from this node, starting with the character at the specified
offset
, and continuing forcount
characters. Returns nothing.-
insertData(
offset
,text
)
Inserts the specified
text
into this node at the specified characteroffset
. Returns nothing.-
replaceData(
offset
,count
,text
)
Replaces the characters starting at the specified
offset
and continuing forcount
characters with the specifiedtext
. Returns nothing.-
splitText(
offset
)
Splits this Text node into two at the specified character position, inserts the new Text node into the document after the original, and returns the new node.
-
substringData(
offset
,count
)
Returns a string that consists of the
count
characters starting with the character at positionoffset
.
See Also
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