/SimpleArticleRetrieval

A simple website article retrieval

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Simple Article Retrieval

A website articles retrieval in Javascript

It includes a highlight function for testing, allowing to see visually the words that are being selected.

innerText vs textContent

Both extract text from html content but have significant differences. (more at Kellegous.com)

innerText is compatible with all common browsers except Firefox 44-

  • A rule was added in this case to use innerHTML with regex replace. (showed better results than textContent - extensive tests can be down)

innerHTML just have some minor problems with IE tables but since all versions of IE are going to use innerText by default, there is no problem.