CharacterData.data

The data property of the CharacterData interface represent the value of the current object's data.

Value

A string with the character information contained in the CharacterData node.

Example

Note: CharacterData is an abstract interface. The examples below use two concrete interfaces implementing it, Text and Comment.

Reading a comment using data

<!-- This is an html comment !-->
<output id="Result"></output>

let comment = document.body.childNodes[1];
let output = document.getElementById("Result");

output.value = comment.data;

Setting the content of a text node using data

<span>Result: </span>Not set.

let span = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];
let textnode = span.nextSibling;

textnode.data = "This text has been set using textnode.data."

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# dom-characterdata-data

Browser compatibility

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See also