How do I know if the content of a div contains another element HTML or just a text?

TAHER El Mehdi 0
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Example 1

there's only text without any HTML element:

<td class="txt">
some text
</td>

Example 2

there's a combination of text and HTML element:

<td class="txt">
some text with <span>Elment HTML</span>
</td>

Example 3

there's only HTML element:

<td class="txt">
<span>only HTML Element</span>
</td>

My try:

let txt = document.querySelector('.txt').innerHTML;
if(/<.*?>/.test(txt)){
    console.log('mixed text and tags!')
}else{
    console.log('only text!')
}

And How can I know the case where only tags without any text combined with.
And Is it the right way of doing that?

text dom javascript html
4 Answers
    const div = document.querySelector('.txt');
if(div.innerText === div.innerHTML){
  console.log('only text!')
}else{
    console.log('mixed text and tags!')
}
ManuelMB0

Loop though the child nodes and check if there are any non-text nodes.

let children = Array.from(document.querySelector('.txt').childNodes);
if (children.every(node => node.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE)) {
    console.log('only text');
} else {
    console.log('mixed text and tags');
}
Barmar0

What you might look for is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/children The children collection only contains nodes but ignores text:

if (document.querySelector('.txt').children.length > 0) {
  console.log('at least one node, possibly mixed with text')
} else {
  console.log('no tags (might be only text or empty)')
}
user32523270

You can use the firstElementChild property of your element. If it's null, there are no child elements.

let element = document.querySelector('.txt');
if (element.firstElementChild){
    console.log('mixed text and tags!')
}else{
    console.log('only text!')
}
userokf20
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