Difference between innerText, innerHTML, and childNodes[].value?

Question

What is the difference between innerHTML, innerText and childNodes[].value in JavaScript?

Answer 1

Unlike innerText, though, innerHTML lets you work with HTML rich text and doesn't automatically encode and decode text. In other words, innerText retrieves and sets the content of the tag as plain text, whereas innerHTML retrieves and sets the content in HTML format.

Answer 2

to add to the list, innerText will keep your text-transform, innerHTML wont

Answer 3

The only difference between innerText and innerHTML is that innerText insert string as it is into the element, while innerHTML run it as html content.

const ourstring = 'My name is <b class="name">Satish chandra Gupta</b>.';
document.getElementById('innertext').innerText = ourstring;
document.getElementById('innerhtml').innerHTML = ourstring;

.name{
color:red;
}

<h3>Inner text below. It inject string as it is into the element.</h3>
<div id="innertext"></div>
<br />
<h3>Inner html below. It renders the string into the element and treat as part of html document.</h3>
<div id="innerhtml"></div>

Answer 4

var element = document.getElementById("main");
var values = element.childNodes[1].innerText;
alert('the value is:' + values);

To further refine it and retrieve the value Alec for example, use another .childNodes[1]

var element = document.getElementById("main");
var values = element.childNodes[1].childNodes[1].innerText;
alert('the value is:' + values);

Answer 5

In simple words:

1. innerText will show the value as is and ignores any HTML formatting which may be included.
2. innerHTML will show the value and apply any HTML formatting.

Answer 6

InnerText will only return the text value of the page with each element on a newline in plain text, while innerHTML will return the HTML content of everything inside the body tag, and childNodes will return a list of nodes, as the name suggests.