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How to add text into span after document.createElement(span);?

rated 0 times [ 73] [ 3] / answers: 1 / hits: 46636 / 10 Years ago, fri, october 24, 2014, 12:00:00

I'm trying to write text into an element span with function .text(), but I got this error
UncaughtTypeError: undefined is not a function, and I also tried function append(), innerHtml(), createTextNode() with no success.

What am I doing wrong?

var closeSpan = document.createElement(span);

closeSpan.setAttribute(class,sr-only);

closeSpan.text(Close); //UncaughtTypeError: undefined is not a function

OR

var closeSpan = document.createElement(span);

closeSpan.setAttribute(class,sr-only);

closeSpan.append(Close); //UncaughtTypeError: undefined is not a function

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answered 10 Years ago rossthomasn · Accepted Answer

Since you are starting with pure DOM code, I'd suggest continuing with pure DOM code:

var closeSpan = document.createElement(span);

closeSpan.setAttribute(class,sr-only);

closeSpan.textContent = Close;

In other words, just set textContent to the value you want.

If compatibility with IE 8 or earlier matters to you, note that textContent does not exist for those older browsers. For those older ones you'd have to use innerText (which works on IE 8 but is not part of any standard) or innerHTML. See the MDN page on textContent (which I link to above) for a discussion of the differences between these fields.