Cross Browser `innerText` function based on innerHTML with replacements.
npm install inner-textCross Browser innerText function based on innerHTML with replacements.
> innerText is a function, that is not standardized, but Chrome and IE support. Firefox doesn't.
There is different ways to implement the innerText functionality.
> You can get a selection window.getSelection(), select all the elements selection.selectAllChildren(el) and call selection.toString().
>
> The problem is, that it is based on the user selection, and you can mess it up.
>
> If you want to go this route: inner-text-shim is for you.
Otherwise this function can be helpful.
sh
npm install inner-text
`usage
all innerText does is get the
from the element, even when the browser does not support it.
you can't set the innerText with this module.`js
var innerText = require('inner-text');// get the dom element with plain javascript
var el = document.querySelector('body');
// or with jquery:
el = $('body')[0];
// set the innerHTML (only for this example)
el.innerHTML = 'hello
world';
var text = innerText(el)
assert.equal(text, 'hello\nworld');
`test
sh
npm test
``