CharacterData: data property

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.

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

html

<!-- This is an HTML comment -->
<output id="result"></output>

const comment = document.body.childNodes[1];
const output = document.getElementById("result");

output.value = comment.data;

html

<span>Result: </span>Not set.

const span = document.querySelector("span");
const textnode = span.nextSibling;

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

Specification
DOM Standard # dom-characterdata-data

	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	4.4	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0