On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mike Wilcox <m...@mikewilcox.net> wrote: > innerText is one of those things IE got right, just like innerHTML. Let's > please consider making that a standard instead of removing it. Also, please > don't make the mistake of thinking it is the same thing as textContent. Think > of textContent as pre-formatted text, and innerText as plain text. IE even > correctly handles a span with display:block; and adds a line break.
Whoa! That was new information to me. Does webkit also take CSS information into account? What happens with elements that have white-space:pre? What about display:none? Is this really a feature that has interoperability? / Jonas