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  Re: "Node.textContent" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-25 16:18 +0100

#29039 — Re: "Node.textContent"

Stefan Ram wrote:

>   The web page at
> 
> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node
> 
>   contains: »
> 
>       Node.textContent
> 
>            Is a DOMString representing the textual content
>            of an element and all its descendants.
> 
>   «. Do I think correctly when I think that when this property
>   represents the textual content /of an element/, I would
>   expect it to be part of the interface »Element« and not »Node«?

No, because the “Element” interface extends the “Node” interface.
 
>   The documentation does not even bother to specify the value
>   or meaning of this property for a non-element node.

MDN is not supposed to nor does it claim to be a substitute for Web 
standards.  Follow the references.
 
>   BTW: In the above quotation, they use the Verb »Is«, not
>   »Returns«.

Which is correct as it is not a method.

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