XPathResult: stringValue property

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The read-only stringValue property of the {{domxref("XPathResult")}} interface returns the string value of a result with {{domxref("XPathResult.resultType")}} being STRING_TYPE.

Value

The return value is the string value of the XPathResult returned by {{domxref("Document.evaluate()")}}.

Exceptions

TYPE_ERR

In case {{domxref("XPathResult.resultType")}} is not STRING_TYPE, a {{domxref("DOMException")}} of type TYPE_ERR is thrown.

Examples

The following example shows the use of the stringValue property.

HTML

<div>XPath example</div>
<div>Text content of the &lt;div&gt; above: <output></output></div>

JavaScript

const xpath = "//div/text()";
const result = document.evaluate(
  xpath,
  document,
  null,
  XPathResult.STRING_TYPE,
  null,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.stringValue;

Result

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Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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