Word meaning the text between opening and closing HTML tags

Question

In HTML there are tags such as
<div id="abc">TEXT HERE</div> What would you cal lthe text here part? I thought about calling it value, but value itself is an attribute of a tag.

Answer 1

Everything from the start tag to the end tag is an "HTML Element" The bit you refer to is the element content

Answer 2

It depends, on what exactly you are referring to:

• Is it anything that's within the <div> tag?
• Is it just the text within the <div> tag?
• Is it just the first text node within the <div> tag?
• Are you talking about HTML as a language, or about a DOM model of HTML, or about an API accessing the HTML?
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The question is not so easy to answer. Some examples:

• With JavaScript, you can use innerText to refer to the text content, whereas you would use innerHTML to refer to any HTML content.
• With a DOM library like Dom4j, the generic term for the string within an element is determined by getStringValue()
• With XSLT, you can use the string() method to retrieve the text
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My personal answer would be to call it the (inner) text of an element.