HTML | DOM innerText Property

The DOM innerText Property is used to set or returns the text content of a specified node and its descendants. This property is very similar to text content property but returns the content of all elements, except for <script> and <style> elements.

Syntax: It is used to set the innerText property.

node.innerText = text

Return Value: It returns a string value which represent the text content of the element along with its descendants.
Example-1:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        HTML DOM innerText Property 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>HTML DOM textContent Property</h2> 
  
    <button id="geeks" onclick="MyGeeks()"> 
        Submit 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="sudo"></p> 
    <script> 
        function MyGeeks() { 
            var text = 
                document.getElementById("geeks").innerText; 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = text; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>          

Output :
Before clicking on the Button:

After clicking on the Button:

Example-2:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        HTML DOM innerText Property 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
        <h2>HTML DOM innerText Property</h2> 
        <p id="geeks" style="font-size:20px;">Hello Geeks!</p> 
        <button onclick="MyGeeks()"> 
            Submit 
        </button> 
        <!-- MyGeeks function replace the inner text-->
        <script> 
            function MyGeeks() { 
                document.getElementById("geeks").innerText = 
                                  "Welcome to GeeksforGeeks!"; 
            } 
        </script> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>       

Output :
Before clicking on The Button:

After clicking on the Button:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by DOM innerText property are listed below:

Google Chrome 1.0
Internet Explorer 4.0
Firefox 1.0
Opera 3.5
Safari 1.0

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