DivtextContent

DivtextContent is an informal term used in web development to describe the text content contained within a div element. It typically refers to the value exposed by the DOM property textContent on a div node. The term is not part of the official DOM API; rather, it arises in tutorials and discussion to distinguish a div's textual content from its HTML structure.

For a given div element, textContent returns all text within the element, including text in nested elements, and preserves whitespace. It can be read or assigned to, enabling simple text updates without affecting child elements' markup in a structural way.

Compared with innerText, textContent is standard across modern browsers and generally faster because it does not trigger layout or reflow calculations. innerHTML, in contrast, returns or sets the HTML markup of the element, while innerText is aware of CSS and rendering.

Practical uses include extracting user-visible text, sanitizing input by setting textContent to prevent HTML being parsed, or replacing text content without re-creating elements. If your goal is to insert HTML, use innerHTML instead; if you need plain text, textContent is preferred.

DivtextContent is therefore a shorthand concept rather than a distinct API name; the practical API is the Element.textContent property.

See also: textContent, innerText, innerHTML, DOM.