The read-only stringValue property of the XPathResult interface returns the string value of a result with XPathResult.resultType being STRING_TYPE.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
The read-only stringValue property of the XPathResult interface returns the string value of a result with XPathResult.resultType being STRING_TYPE.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
The return value is the string value of the XPathResult returned by Document.evaluate().
In case XPathResult.resultType is not STRING_TYPE, an XPathException of type TYPE_ERR is thrown.
The following example shows the use of the stringValue property.
html
<div>XPath example</div> <div>Text content of the <div> above: <output></output></div>
js
const xpath = "//div/text()"; const result = document.evaluate( xpath, document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null, ); document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.stringValue;
| Specification |
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| DOM Standard # dom-xpathresult-stringvalue |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
stringValue |
1 | 12 | 1 | No | ≤12.1 | 3 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XPathResult/stringValue