'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

What about something like this?

//$elem is the jQuery object passed along.

var $currentText = $elem.context.firstChild.data.toUpperCase();

** I needed to make mine uppercase.