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The Text interface represents a text {{domxref("Node", "node")}} in a DOM tree.

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To understand what a text node is, consider the following document:

<html lang="en" class="e">
  <head>
    <title>Aliens?</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Why yes.
  </body>
</html>

In that document, there are five text nodes, with the following contents:

Each of those text nodes is an object that has the properties and methods documented in this article.

Constructor

{{domxref("Text.Text", "Text()")}}
- : Returns a new Text node with the parameter as its textual content.

Inherits properties from its parents, {{domxref("CharacterData")}} , {{domxref("Node")}} , and {{domxref("EventTarget")}} .

{{domxref("Text.assignedSlot")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
- : Returns a {{domxref("HTMLSlotElement")}} representing the {{htmlelement("slot")}} the node is inserted in.
{{domxref("Text.wholeText")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
- : Returns a string containing the text of all Text nodes logically adjacent to this {{domxref("Node")}} , concatenated in document order.

Inherits methods from its parent, {{domxref("CharacterData")}} , {{domxref("Node")}} , and {{domxref("EventTarget")}} .

{{domxref("Text.splitText")}}
- : Breaks the node into two nodes at a specified offset.

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