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"title":"HTMLElement.innerText",
"description":"A property representing the text within a DOM element and its descendants. As a getter, it approximates the text the user would get if they highlighted the contents of the element with the cursor and then copied to the clipboard.",
"spec":"https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertext-idl-attribute",
"status":"ls",
"links":[
{
"url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/innerText",
"title":"MDN Web Docs - innerText"
},
{
"url":"https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5",
"title":"WHATWG Compatibility Standard issue #5: spec innerText"
},
{
"url":"https://github.com/timdown/rangy",
"title":"Rangy, a JS range and selection library which contains an innerText implementation"
},
{
"url":"http://discourse.wicg.io/t/standardizing-innertext/799",
"title":"Standardizing innerText \u2013 Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) discussion"
}
],
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{
"description":"In IE10 and IE11, when using `innerText` (and also `innerHTML` or `outerHTML`) on a `textarea` which has a `placeholder` attribute, the returned HTML/text also uses the `placeholder`'s value as the actual `textarea`'s value. [See bug](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/101525/)."
}
],
"categories":[
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"notes":"This test only checks that the property exists and works correctly in a very simple case.\r\n[This blog post by kangax](http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/) explains the history of this property, gives much more detailed cross-browser compatibility information, and gives a detailed strawman specification for the property.\r\n`HTMLElement.innerText` is similar to, but has some important differences from, the standard [`Node.textContent`](https://caniuse.com/#feat=textcontent) property.",
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},
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"parent":"",
"keywords":"inner,text,content",
"ie_id":"",
"chrome_id":"",
"firefox_id":"",
"webkit_id":"",
"shown":true
}