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Faisal Ahmed
Faisal Ahmed

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Difference between innerText and textContent.

innerText returns the visible text contained in a node only, where textContent returns the full text.


<span>Hello <span style="display: none;">World</span></span>
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  • innerText will return 'Hello'

  • textContent will return 'Hello World'

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