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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: <span> text replacement ??
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> On 4/02/2013 12:38 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> 2013-02-03 12:11, Andrew Poulos wrote:
>>> Its unfortunate that PE didn't post the answer you wanted to see but I
>>> notice that you haven't posted an answer.
>>
>> Which part of my text 'The practical choice is the innerHTML property:
>> document.getElementById("ierrmsg").innerHTML = "new error msg" ;' did
>> you fail to notice? It was even quoted in the Pointless Troll's message.
> 
> My bad. I was reading your follow up post and didn't realise that the
> the remnant quote in the clipped post was yours.

But, as I said, it is incorrect to call the proprietary “innerHTML” property 
“the practical choice”; that is the result of short-sighted reasoning as the 
OP explicitly wanted to change the *text content* of the element.  Compare 
the result of

  el.textContent = "<strong>foo &amp; bar</strong>";

with that of

  el.innerHTML = "<strong>foo &amp; bar</strong>";

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