Question

I want to set value of a tag with document model

I need to set changeme value to something

How can i do that no jquery please

<a href="">changeme</a>

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You will need first to get a reference to the DOM element. There are numerous ways of doing this (the easiest is probably getElementById, so use that if you can give your link an id). If not, you could use getElementsByTagName:

var element = document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0]; //Get the first `a` element

Once you have a reference to the element, you can change the text using the textContent property. Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple, because IE uses innerText rather than textContent:

if("textContent" in element) { //Check whether element has textContent property
    element.textContent = "Something new";
}
else {
    element.innerText = "Something new";
}