Javascript - Div Content Without Innerhtml

I wanted to ask how to change div content, but not using innerhtml.

Solution 1:

DEMO:http://jsfiddle.net/Cb6ME/

// get the divvar div = document.getElementById('foo');

   // remove child nodes while at least one existswhile( div.childNodes[0] ) {
    div.removeChild( div.childNodes[0] );
}
   // create a new span elementvar span = document.createElement( 'span' );

   // give it some text content
span.appendChild( document.createTextNode("I'm new!!!") );

   // append the span to the original div
div.appendChild( span );

Solution 2:

You can use nodeValue to access the value of a node, however the value of a div. In your example you might have the following HTML...

<div id="myLovelyDiv">This is the text that you want to change</div>

and this script...

var myDiv = getElementById("myLovelyDiv");
myDiv.childNodes[0].nodeValue = "The text has been changed.";

but I fail to see why you wouldn't use

myDiv.innerHTML = "The text has been changed properly.";

Solution 3:

A DIV element is a generic block level (by default) element in HTML used as a structural container to hold one or more block or inline elements.

Depending on what it is you want to change you can either select the sub-node in question directly, loop over the childNodes property to find the desired sub-node or completely rewrite the contents as html using innerHTML (which you stated you didn't want to do).

If you want to add content you can create a new element and use the appendChild(child) method of the DIV element to add to it's contents.

Is that what you were looking for?

Solution 4:

I know I'm late but .textContent can be replaced for .innerHTML (if you only want to change the text and not code HTML).