[jQuery] Re: textContent attribute problem with ie

[RobG]

On Oct 6, 2:37 am, "m.ugues" <m.ug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HAllo all.
> This piece of code works fine in FIrefox but does not work in IE.
>
> http://pastie.org/642444
>
> The problem is on textContent attribute that in IE is undefined.

The textContent property is part of the W3C DOM 3 Core specification,
so likely to not be implemented in a number of browsers. For modern
browsers, you can use a simple function like:

function getTextContent(el) {
  if (typeof el.textContent == 'string')
    return el.textContent;
  if (typeof el.innerText == 'string')
    return el.innerText;
}


To support older browsers too, you can use:

   function getTextContent(el) {
     if (typeof el.textContent == 'string')
       return el.textContent;
     if (typeof el.innerText == 'string')
       return el.innerText;

     return getText2(el);

     function getText2(el) {
       var x = el.childNodes;
       var txt = '';
       for (var i=0, len=x.length; i<len; ++i){
         if (3 == x[i].nodeType) {
           txt += x[i].data;
         } else if (1 == x[i].nodeType){
           txt += getText2(x[i]);
         }
       }
       return txt.replace(/\s+/g,' ');
     }
   }


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Rob