HTMLElement.innerText
- LSA property representing the text within a DOM element and its descendants. As a getter, it approximates the text the user would get if they highlighted the contents of the element with the cursor and then copied to the clipboard.
Chrome
- ✅ 4 - 130: Supported
- ✅ 131: Supported
- ✅ 132 - 134: Supported
Edge
- ✅ 12 - 130: Supported
- ✅ 131: Supported
Safari
- ﹖ 3.1: Support unknown
- ✅ 3.2 - 18.0: Supported
- ✅ 18.1: Supported
- ✅ 18.2 - TP: Supported
Firefox
- ❌ 2 - 44: Not supported
- ✅ 45 - 131: Supported
- ✅ 132: Supported
- ✅ 133 - 135: Supported
Opera
- ﹖ 9: Support unknown
- ✅ 9.5 - 113: Supported
- ✅ 114: Supported
IE
- ﹖ 5.5: Support unknown
- ✅ 6 - 10: Supported
- ✅ 11: Supported
Chrome for Android
- ✅ 131: Supported
Safari on iOS
- ﹖ 3.2: Support unknown
- ✅ 4 - 18.0: Supported
- ✅ 18.1: Supported
- ✅ 18.2: Supported
Samsung Internet
- ✅ 4 - 25: Supported
- ✅ 26: Supported
Opera Mini
- ✅ all: Supported
Opera Mobile
- ✅ 10 - 12.1: Supported
- ✅ 80: Supported
UC Browser for Android
- ✅ 15.5: Supported
Android Browser
- ﹖ 2.1 - 2.2: Support unknown
- ✅ 2.3 - 4.4.4: Supported
- ✅ 131: Supported
Firefox for Android
- ✅ 132: Supported
QQ Browser
- ✅ 14.9: Supported
Baidu Browser
- ✅ 13.52: Supported
KaiOS Browser
- ✅ 2.5: Supported
- ✅ 3: Supported
This test only checks that the property exists and works correctly in a very simple case.
This blog post by kangax explains the history of this property, gives much more detailed cross-browser compatibility information, and gives a detailed strawman specification for the property.
HTMLElement.innerText
is similar to, but has some important differences from, the standard Node.textContent
property.