Kevin Powell - Community•3mo ago

innerText appending words weirdly

https://codepen.io/latuza/pen/vENMEpB Hi, when I use .innerHTML += it reserves everyhting inlcuding classes on other tags, and add text to it. But, when I use .innerText +=, it destroys everything and just add the text, why?

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Jochem•3mo ago

Because inner text only contains the text node content inside the element, not the html

brrOP•3mo ago

even if we append?

Jochem•3mo ago

appending is just a weird way of saying A = A + B, you take the value of itself, add something, then assign it back so yes, even if you're appending

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