The Text.splitText()
method breaks the Text
node into two nodes at the specified offset, keeping both nodes in the tree as siblings.
After the split, the current node contains all the content up to the specified offset point, and a newly created node of the same type contains the remaining text. The newly created node is returned to the caller. If the original node had a parent, the new node is inserted as the next sibling of the original node. If the offset is equal to the length of the original node, the newly created node has no data.
Separated text nodes can be concatenated using the Node.normalize()
method.
Syntax
newNode = textNode.splitText(offset)
Parameters
offset
- The index immediately before which to break the text node.
Return value
Returns a newly created Text
node that contains the text after the specified offset point.
Exceptions thrown
A DOMException
with a value of INDEX_SIZE_ERR
is thrown if the specified offset is negative or is greater than the number of 16-bit units in the node's text; a DOMException
with a value of NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
is thrown if the node is read-only.
Example
In this example, the text of a <p>
is split into two text nodes, and a <u>
is inserted between them.
HTML
<p>foobar</p>
JavaScript
const p = document.querySelector('p'); // Get contents of <p> as a text node const foobar = p.firstChild; // Split 'foobar' into two text nodes, 'foo' and 'bar', // and save 'bar' as a const const bar = foobar.splitText(3); // Create a <u> element containing ' new content ' const u = document.createElement('u'); u.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' new content ')); // Add <u> before 'bar' p.insertBefore(u, bar); // The result is: <p>foo<u> new content </u>bar</p>
Result
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
DOM The definition of 'Text.splitText' in that specification. |
Living Standard | No change from Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification. |
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification The definition of 'Text.splitText' in that specification. |
Obsolete | No change from Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification. |
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification The definition of 'Text.splitText' in that specification. |
Obsolete | No change from Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification. |
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification The definition of 'Text.splitText' in that specification. |
Obsolete | Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
splitText | Chrome
Full support
1
| Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support 1 | IE Full support Yes | Opera
Full support
Yes
| Safari
Full support
Yes
| WebView Android
Full support
Yes
| Chrome Android
Full support
18
| Firefox Android Full support 4 | 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.
See also
- The
Text
interface it belongs to. - The opposite method:
Node.normalize
.