'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

innerText has been added to Firefox and should be available in the FF45 release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264412

A draft spec has been written and is expected to be incorporated into the HTML living standard in the future: http://rocallahan.github.io/innerText-spec/, https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/465

Note that currently the Firefox, Chrome and IE implementations are all incompatible. Going forward, we can probably expect Firefox, Chrome and Edge to converge while old IE remains incompatible.

See also: https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5