Hi all,
I have recently purchase Larry Ullman's book, Modern Javascript, and working my way through each of the chapters.
I have reached Chapter 6 - Complex Variable Types and have got stuck on page 179.
As I work my way through the book I have been making lots of comments in my Javascript files to ensure that I fully understand the purpose of each line of code. However, when it has come to the code with textContent and innerText I have got stuck.
For the example which displays today's date and time (page 178) I do not know why the textContent and innerText properties are used. From what I have gathered, textContent works in Firefox, while innerText works in Internet Explorer. What is the purpose of using them? Are they both used to ensure the date and time are displayed in both Firefox and IE?
The code I am querying is:
From what I have read the code will display the following message if the output ID in the HTML document is undefined, "Right now it is January 19, 2014 at 19:42". Would the document.write method work as well or is not appropriate for the task?
Sorry if this is a really stupid question. I have tried searching for an answer on Google but am overwhelmed by the number of websites which only confused me further or use terminology I do not understand. I moved on to the section on arrays but it is used there as well so thought it would be a good idea to fully understand the purpose of the properties before moving on.