Feb 2, 2011 · The innerHTML property is part of the Document Object Model (DOM) that allows Javascript code to manipulate a website being displayed. Specifically, it allows reading and replacing everything within a given DOM element (HTML tag).

function var1() { document.getElementById('text').innerHTML = 'hi'; } window.onload = var1; Note the casing of onload , as well as the missing parentheses after var1 . Share

Dec 2, 2024 · Every time innerHTML is set, the HTML has to be parsed, a DOM constructed, and inserted into the document. This takes time. For example, if elm.innerHTML has thousands of divs, tables, lists, images, etc, then calling .innerHTML += ... is going to cause the parser to re-parse all that stuff over again. This could also break references to ...

Oct 1, 2013 · It's a read/write property. That means that you could also get the HTML inside a hidden div, for example, and store in a variable. Then you could put the data from the variable inside another not hidden div, when you need it always using the …

Jul 5, 2015 · The .innerHTML property refers to the literal HTML markup that is, once assigned, interpreted and incorporated into the DOM (Document Object Model) for the current document. On the other hand, the .value property simply refers to the content of typically an HTML input control, such as a textbox.

Aug 25, 2010 · My problem is: I am working on already designed pages, the pages contains tables and in JavaScript the innerHTML property is being used to populate them dynamically. The application is working fine on Firefox but Internet Explorer fires …

Dec 16, 2013 · innerHTML is normally used for div, span, td and similar elements. value applies only to objects that have the value attribute (normally, form controls). innerHTML applies to every object that can contain HTML (divs, spans, but many other and also form controls). They are not equivalent or replaceable. Depends on what you are trying to achieve.

I am trying to set the innerHTML of one of my elements to the content of another html file that just displays plain text. Is this possible? The way I'm thinking of it is as follows, but obviously it will just set the text to that quote directly instead of displaying the contents of the file.

Sep 26, 2013 · innerText property sets or returns the text content as plain text of the specified node, and all its descendants, whereas the innerHTML property gets and sets the plain text or HTML contents in the elements. Unlike innerText, innerHTML lets you work with HTML rich text and doesn’t automatically encode and decode text.

The fact that innerHTML is a property with a getter and setter is why code like this is poor practice: for (var n = 0; n < something.length; ++n) { element.innerHTML += ", " + something[n]; } That's constantly building and then destroying and rebuilding a DOM tree and making a bunch of hidden function calls.