CharacterData: insertData() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The insertData() method of the CharacterData interface inserts the provided data into this CharacterData node's current data, at the provided offset from the start of the existing data. The provided data is spliced into the existing data.

Syntax

characterData.insertData(offset, data)

Parameters

offset: The offset number of characters to insert the provided data at. 0 is the first character of the string.
data: The data to insert.

Return value

None.

Exceptions

IndexSizeError DOMException: Thrown if offset is negative or greater than the length of the contained data.

Example

html

<span>Result: </span>A string.

const span = document.querySelector("span");
const textNode = span.nextSibling;

textNode.insertData(2, "long ");

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard # dom-characterdata-insertdata

Browser compatibility

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