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
Node.normalize( )
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