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Observation: .textContent ||.innerText order does matter in modern browsers. IE doesn't care, so put textContent first always.

Note: data, nodeValue and innerHTML are only included out of curiosity.

Preparation code

<div id="text">content to be retrieved</div>
<script>
  var elem = document.getElementById("text");
  var node = elem.firstChild;
</script>

Preparation code output

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var x = elem.innerHTML;

var x = elem.textContent || elem.innerText;

var x = elem.innerText || elem.textContent;

var x = node.data;

var x = node.nodeValue;

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Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by galambalazs on 17th November 2010
• Revision 2: published by galambalazs on 19th November 2010
• Revision 3: published by galambalazs on 19th November 2010
• Revision 9: published by aeosynth on 4th November 2011
• Revision 10: published by Mayhem on 4th November 2011
• Revision 11: published on 28th November 2011

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