The insertAdjacentText()
method of the Element
interface inserts a given text node at a given position relative to the element it is invoked upon.
Syntax
element.insertAdjacentText(position, element);
Parameters
position
- A
DOMString
representing the position relative to theelement
; must be one of the following strings:'beforebegin'
: Before theelement
itself.'afterbegin'
: Just inside theelement
, before its first child.'beforeend'
: Just inside theelement
, after its last child.'afterend'
: After theelement
itself.
element
- A
DOMString
representing the text to be inserted into the tree.
Return value
Void.
Exceptions
Exception | Explanation |
---|---|
SyntaxError |
The position specified is not a recognised value. |
Visualization of position names
<!--beforebegin
--><p>
<!--afterbegin
--> foo <!--beforeend
--></p>
<!--afterend
-->
Note: The
beforebegin
and afterend
positions work only if the node is in a tree and has an element parent.Example
beforeBtn.addEventListener('click', function() { para.insertAdjacentText('afterbegin',textInput.value); }); afterBtn.addEventListener('click', function() { para.insertAdjacentText('beforeend',textInput.value); });
Have a look at our insertAdjacentText.html demo on GitHub (see the source code too.) Here we have a simple paragraph. You can enter some text into the form element, then press the Insert before and Insert after buttons to insert it before or after the existing paragraph text using insertAdjacentText()
. Note that the existing text node is not added to — further text nodes are created containing the new additions.
Polyfill
You can polyfill the insertAdjacentText() method
in Internet Explorer 5.5 (maybe earlier) and higher with the following code:
if (!Element.prototype.insertAdjacentText) Element.prototype.insertAdjacentText = function(type, txt){ this.insertAdjacentHTML( type, (txt+'') // convert to string .replace(/&/g, '&') // embed ampersand symbols .replace(/</g, '<') // embed less-than symbols ) }
Specification
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
DOM The definition of 'insertAdjacentText()' in that specification. |
Living Standard |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
insertAdjacentText | Chrome Full support 1 | Edge
Full support
18
| Firefox Full support 48 | IE
Full support
Yes
| Opera Full support Yes | Safari Full support 10 | WebView Android Full support 2.3 | Chrome Android Full support 18 | Firefox Android Full support 48 | Opera Android Full support Yes | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android Full support 1.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.