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.
Example
Note: CharacterData is an abstract interface.
The examples below use two concrete interfaces implementing it, Text and Comment.
Reading a comment using data
html
<!-- This is an HTML comment -->
<output id="result"></output>
js
const comment = document.body.childNodes[1];
const output = document.getElementById("result");
output.value = comment.data;
Setting the content of a text node using data
html
<span>Result: </span>Not set.
js
const span = document.querySelector("span");
const textnode = span.nextSibling;
textnode.data = "This text has been set using 'textnode.data'.";
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM Standard # dom-characterdata-data |
Browser compatibility
| desktop | mobile | ||||||||||
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data | |||||||||||
See also
CharacterData.lengthreturning the length of the data contained in theCharacterDatanode.