Date: 01/23/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, xml, java, microsoft

node is an element of xml (not xhtml!) document, is a child of response.xml.documentElement (from XmlHttpRequest or Msxml2.XMLHTTP, Microsoft.XMLHTTP).

Code var textContent = node.textContent works fine in Firefox and doesn't worsk in IE. I don't know how to get text contents of a node in IE, because of under it:

1. typeof node.textContent == undefined
2. typeof node.innerText == undefined
3. typeof node.innerHTML == undefined (it is normal, checked just in case)
4. typeof node.nodeValue == null (it's ok)

I use javascript code "inside" html document, declared as


http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Do you have any ideas?

update:

texContent = node.firstChild.nodeValue

It's enough in my case. You can [recursively] concatenate nodeValues of all text childs of given element if need.

ps: sorry for my english...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/90948.html