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The poor, misunderstood innerText Few things are as misunderstood and misused on the web as innerText property. That quirky, non-standard way of element's text retrieval, introduced by Internet Explorer and later "copied" by both WebKit/Blink and Opera for web-compatibility reasons. It's usually seen in combination with textContent — as a cross-browser way of using standard property followed by a proprietary one: {% gist kangax/21b031672fcce0810e6f %} Or as the main webcompat offender in numero...