Node: nodeValue property

The nodeValue property of the Node interface returns or sets the value of the current node.

Value

A string containing the value of the current node, if any. For the document itself, nodeValue returns null. For text, comment, and CDATA nodes, nodeValue returns the content of the node. For attribute nodes, the value of the attribute is returned.

The following table shows the return values for different types of nodes.

NodeValue of nodeValue
CDATASectionContent of the CDATA section
CommentContent of the comment
Documentnull
DocumentFragmentnull
DocumentTypenull
Elementnull
NamedNodeMapnull
ProcessingInstructionEntire content excluding the target
TextContent of the text node

Note: When nodeValue is defined to be null, setting it has no effect.

Example

html
<div id="d1">Hello world</div>
<!-- Example of comment -->
<output id="result">Not calculated yet.</output>

and the following script:

js
let node = document.querySelector("body").firstChild;
let result = "Node names are:\n";
while (node) {
  result += `Value of ${node.nodeName}: ${node.nodeValue}\n`;
  node = node.nextSibling;
}

const output = document.getElementById("result");
output.innerText = result;

Specifications