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Thankfully, `innerText` has been standardized by WhatWG for a while now [1]. Usually, it accomplishes what you want to do (lay text and have it be visible in th

Thankfully, `innerText` has been standardized by WhatWG for a while now [1]. Usually, it accomplishes what you want to do (lay text and have it be visible in that form) as well or better than `textContent`. As such, I generally use that today. 1. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertext-idl-attribute https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertex...

rendall 6y ago
And, has been supported by all the browsers for years: https://caniuse.com/?search=innerText https://caniuse.com/?search=innerText I'm not sure why anyone would use `textContent` anymore. I think I had even forgotten that it exists.
- eterm 6y ago
  You say "for years" meaning a year after this blog post was originally written.
  - rendall 6y ago
    4.5 years is "for years" especially in the frontend world