.js – DOM Methods

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createTextNode(nodeName)

JavaScript DOM Method: createTextNode

Creates a new Text node.

text = document.createTextNode(data)

text is a Text node.
data is a string containing the
data to be put in
the text node.

<html>http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/
<head>
<title>createTextNode example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addTextNode()
{
var newtext = document.createTextNode(" Some text added dynamically. ");
var para = document.getElementById("p1");
para.appendChild(newtext);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="border: 1px solid red">
<p id="p1">First line of paragraph.<br /></p>
</div><br />
<button onclick="addTextNode();">add another textNode.</button>
</body>
</html>

View createTextNode listing in the w3c DOM Level 2 Core

This reference originally retrieved from “http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:document.createTextNode“

See Also: The W3C DOM2 Core Reference Root, where other JavaScript Methods, like the one described here, are indicated with a light-blue, inline background colour.