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CharacterData.data

The data property of the CharacterData interface represent the value of the current object's data.

Value

A string with the character information contained in the CharacterData node.

Example

Note: CharacterData is an abstract interface. The examples below use two concrete interfaces implementing it, Text and Comment.

Reading a comment using data

<!-- This is an HTML comment !-->
<output id="Result"></output>
let comment = document.body.childNodes[1];
let output = document.getElementById("Result");

output.value = comment.data;

Setting the content of a text node using data

<span>Result: </span>Not set.
let span = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];
let textnode = span.nextSibling;

textnode.data = "This text has been set using textnode.data."

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
data
1
12
1
5
≤12.1
1
1
18
4
≤12.1
1
1.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CharacterData/data