'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

A really simple line of Javascript can get the "non-taggy" text in all main browsers...

var myElement = document.getElementById('anyElementId');
var myText = (myElement.innerText || myElement.textContent);