254174 - textarea innerText returns undefined in javascript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264412

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[anita.kessler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

<form>
<textarea>123</textarea>
<input type=button onClick="alert(document.forms[0].elements[0].innerText)">
</form>

This example returns undefined instead of '123'.

Workaround: Usage of document.forms[0].elements[0].value instead of .innerText
works well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use FireFox 0.9.2
2. Use example at "Details"





Is .innerText not supported at all with a textarea?

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

.innerText is an IE only dom property. You should be able to use the w3c dom
property .textContent instead.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 262946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 287395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 317330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 339017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264412 ***