Alternative for innerHTML?

Question

I\'m wondering if there\'s a way to change the text of anything in HTML without using innerHTML.

Reason I\'m asking is because it\'s kinda frowned upon by the W3C. I

Answer 1

The better way of doing it is to use document.createTextNode. One of the main reasons for using this function instead of innerHTML is that all HTML character escaping will be taken care of for you whereas you would have to escape your string yourself if you were simply setting innerHTML.