In this article, we are given an HTML document and the task is to get the text of an <span> element. There are two methods used to get the span elements which are discussed below:
HTML DOM textContent Property: This property set/return the text content of the defined node and all its descendants. By setting the textContent property, the child nodes are removed and replaced by a single Text node having the specified string.
Syntax:
- Return the text content of a node.
node.textContent
- Set the text content of a node.
node.textContent = text
HTML DOM innerText Property: This property set/return the text content of the defined node and all its descendants. By setting the innerText property, any child nodes are removed and replaced by a single Text node having the specified string.
Syntax:
- Return the text content of a node.
node.innerText
- Set the text content of a node.
node.innerText = text
Example 1: This example gets the content by using textContent property.
html
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head> <title> JavaScript Get the text of a span element </title></head><body> <h1 style="color:green;"> GeeksForGeeks </h1> <span id="GFG_Span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"> This is text of Span element. </span> <br><br> <button onclick="gfg_Run()"> Click here </button> <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color:green; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"> </p> <script> let span = document.getElementById("GFG_Span"); let el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); function gfg_Run() { el_down.innerHTML = span.textContent; } </script></body></html> |
Output:
JavaScript Get the text of a span element
Example 2: This example gets the content by using innerText property.
html
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head> <title> JavaScript Get the text of a span element </title></head><body> <h1 style="color:green;"> neveropen </h1> <span id="GFG_Span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"> This is text of Span element. </span> <br><br> <button onclick="gfg_Run()"> Click here </button> <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color:green; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"> </p> <script> let span = document.getElementById("GFG_Span"); let el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); function gfg_Run() { el_down.innerHTML = span.innerText; } </script></body></html> |
Output:
JavaScript Get the text of a span element
