XPathResult: stringValue property

Available in workers

The read-only stringValue property of the XPathResult interface returns the string value of a result with resultType being STRING_TYPE.

Value

The return value is the string value of the XPathResult returned by evaluate().

Exceptions

TYPE_ERR

In case resultType is not STRING_TYPE, a 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

Specifications

Browser compatibility