This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Creates a new Text node. This method can be used to escape HTML characters.
createTextNode(data)
dataA string containing the data to be put in the text node.
A Text node.
<button>YES!</button> <button>NO!</button> <button>WE CAN!</button> <hr /> <p id="p1">First line of paragraph.</p>
function addTextNode(text) {
const newText = document.createTextNode(text);
const p1 = document.getElementById("p1");
p1.appendChild(newText);
}
document.querySelectorAll("button").forEach((button) => {
button.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
addTextNode(`${event.target.textContent} `);
});
});
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM> # ref-for-dom-document-createtextnode①> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
createTextNode |
1 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/createTextNode