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The Text interface represents a text node in a DOM tree.

To understand what a text node is, consider the following document:

html

<html lang="en" class="e">
  <head>
    <title>Aliens?</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Why yes.
  </body>
</html>

In that document, there are five text nodes, with the following contents:

Each of those text nodes is an object that has the properties and methods documented in this article.

Text(): Returns a new Text node with the parameter as its textual content.

Inherits properties from its parents, CharacterData, Node, and EventTarget.

Text.assignedSlot Read only: Returns a HTMLSlotElement representing the <slot> the node is inserted in.
Text.wholeText Read only: Returns a string containing the text of all Text nodes logically adjacent to this Node, concatenated in document order.

Inherits methods from its parent, CharacterData, Node, and EventTarget.

Specification
DOM Standard # interface-text

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`Text`	29	16	24	No	16	8	4.4	29	24	16	8	2.0
`Text`	1	12	1	5	≤12.1	1	≤37	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0
`assignedSlot`	53	79	63	No	40	10	53	53	63	41	10	6.0
`getBoxQuads`	No	No	31	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
`splitText`	1 Before Chrome 30, the `offset` parameter was optional.	12	1	5	≤12.1 Before Opera 17, the `offset` parameter was optional.	1 The `offset` parameter is optional.	1 Before version 4.4, the `offset` parameter was optional.	18 Before Chrome 30, the `offset` parameter was optional.	4	≤12.1 Before Opera 17, the `offset` parameter was optional.	1 The `offset` parameter is optional.	1.0 Before Samsung Internet 2.0, the `offset` parameter was optional.
`wholeText`	2	12	3.5	9	≤12.1	4	4.4	18	4	≤12.1	3.2	1.0