<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Test for a.text</title> <script src="/tests/SimpleTest/SimpleTest.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/tests/SimpleTest/test.css"/> <link rel="help" href="http://www.whatwg.org/html/#dom-a-text"/> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <a href="a">a b c</a> <a href="b">a <!--b--> c</a> <a href="c">a <b>b</b> c</a> </div> <pre id="test"> <script> var d = document.getElementById("content") .appendChild(document.createElement("a")); d.href = "d"; d.appendChild(document.createTextNode("a ")); d.appendChild(document.createTextNode("b ")); d.appendChild(document.createTextNode("c ")); var expected = ["a b c", "a c", "a b c", "a b c "]; var list = document.getElementById("content").getElementsByTagName("a"); for (var i = 0, il = list.length; i < il; ++i) { is(list[i].text, list[i].textContent); is(list[i].text, expected[i]); list[i].text = "x"; is(list[i].text, "x"); is(list[i].textContent, "x"); is(list[i].firstChild.data, "x"); is(list[i].childNodes.length, 1); list[i].textContent = "y"; is(list[i].text, "y"); is(list[i].textContent, "y"); is(list[i].firstChild.data, "y"); is(list[i].childNodes.length, 1); } </script> </pre> </body> </html>