'innerText' works in IE, but not in Firefox

Question

I have some JavaScript code that works in IE containing the following:

myElement.innerText = \"foo\";

However, it seems that the \'innerTex

Answer 1

As per Prakash K's answer Firefox does not support the innerText property. So you can simply test whether the user agent supports this property and proceed accordingly as below:

function changeText(elem, changeVal) {
    if (typeof elem.textContent !== "undefined") {
        elem.textContent = changeVal;
    } else {
        elem.innerText = changeVal;
    }
}