I have an HTML file which contains the following line:
<div><img src="img1.gif"><br>My Text</div>
I'm trying to select the phrase "My Text" using JavaScript so I can change it. I'm able to get the object that contains the text by using lastChild, but can't figure out how to get the value of the text itself.
you can access text content of the [object Text] by the "data" property. this property is R/W so that you can use it to read text as well as to write it.
<div><img id="my_img_1" src="img1.gif">My Text</div>
<script>
alert('my current text = ' + lastChild.data);
lastChild.data = 'new text';
</script>
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