The
Text
interface inherits from
CharacterData
and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an
Element
or
Attr
. If there is no markup inside
an element's content, the text is contained in a single object
implementing the
Text
interface that is the only child of
the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items
(elements, comments, etc.) and
Text
nodes that form the list
of children of the element.
When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one
Text
node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent
Text
nodes that represent the contents of a given element
without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way
to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they
will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The
normalize()
method on Node
merges any such
adjacent Text
objects into a single node for each block of
text.
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.
Text
interface inherits fromCharacterData
and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of anElement
orAttr
. If there is no markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single object implementing theText
interface that is the only child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items (elements, comments, etc.) andText
nodes that form the list of children of the element.When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one
Text
node for each block of text. Users may create adjacentText
nodes that represent the contents of a given element without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. Thenormalize()
method onNode
merges any such adjacentText
objects into a single node for each block of text.See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.