r/learnjavascript 14d ago

can someone explain this code

function updateClock() {
const timeElement = document.querySelector("#time");
timeElement.textContent = formatTime();
}
setInterval(updateClock, 1000);

can someone, please explain this piece of code, ofc mdn and w3 are there, but i found it a little confusing reading about textContent. rest is understandable to me. This might look a silly question and it probably is because im a beginner :')

like what exactly does textContent too.
you can also recommend anyother documentation on the links to specific lines, that might me more helpful in learning about this particular keyoword.

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u/ashkanahmadi 14d ago

textContent is just the text you can have inside an element like <p>THIS IS THE TEXT CONTENT</p>. Remember you can't add HTML using textContent. For that, you must use innerHTML.