innerHTML without the html, just text [duplicate]

Answer 1

You want .textContent in all but older IE, and .innerText in IE (<9).

So, try:

string = (node.textContent===undefined) ? node.innerText : node.textContent;

EDIT: Or, just use GGG's much cleaner string = (node.innerText || node.textContent), since undefined is falsy.

Answer 2

In the browser that supports the standard, you can use textContent instead of innerHTML. Otherwise you can loop through the next nodes and concatenate them, or using library like jQuery that abstract this approach for you.

Answer 3

If you are already using jQuery, you can use .text():

http://jsfiddle.net/vkgYR/

if you are not using it though, you should just go with the other comments since it would be silly to load all of jQuery just for the .text() method