XML DOM textContent Property

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# XML DOM textContent Property

Node Object

## Definition and Usage

The textContent property sets or returns the textual content of a node and its descendants.

On setting, any child nodes are removed and replaced by a single Text node containing the string this property is set to.

## Syntax

nodeObject.textContent

## Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and returns the textual content of the <book> elements:

## Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x.item(i).textContent);
document.write("
");
}

The output of the code above will be:

Everyday Italian Giada De Laurentiis 2005 30.00
Harry Potter J K. Rowling 2005 29.99
XQuery Kick Start James McGovern Per Bothner Kurt Cagle James Linn
Vaidyanathan Nagarajan 2003 49.99
Learning XML Erik T. Ray 2003 39.95
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textContent - Set the textual content of a node

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