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innerText implementation

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jsdom is a great tool for web scraping. However the textContent is a very inconvenient way to get readable text for html2text conversion.

There is a wonderful article about usefulness of negligible innerText in many cases:

http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/

The author suggests getSelection().toString() as a very slow workaround, but getSelection is not implemented in the jsdom yet.

Could you consider an implementing of the innerText in the jsdom? The author has done a great exploration about it, he has even added a simple spec at the end.

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Created 8 years ago
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domeniccommented, Sep 25, 2015

So, innerText is not standard, and not implemented in at least one major engine (Firefox). Without a standard, I don’t think we should implement it.

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Bnayacommented, Jan 25, 2018

Just use headless chrome 😃

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