The data
property of the CharacterData
interface represent the value of the current object's data.
CharacterData.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
Specification |
---|
DOM Standard # dom-characterdata-data |
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
-
CharacterData.length
returning the length of the data contained in theCharacterData
node.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CharacterData/data