XPathResult: stringValue property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The read-only stringValue
property of the
XPathResult
interface returns the string value of a result with
XPathResult.resultType
being STRING_TYPE
.
Value
The return value is the string value of the XPathResult
returned by
Document.evaluate()
.
Exceptions
TYPE_ERR
In case XPathResult.resultType
is not STRING_TYPE
, an
XPathException
of type TYPE_ERR
is thrown.
Examples
The following example shows the use of the stringValue
property.
HTML
html
<div>XPath example</div>
<div>Text content of the <div> above: <output></output></div>
JavaScript
js
const xpath = "//div/text()";
const result = document.evaluate(
xpath,
document,
null,
XPathResult.STRING_TYPE,
null,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.stringValue;
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
DOM Standard # dom-xpathresult-stringvalue |
Browser compatibility
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