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Modify an Existing Element

Explore how to modify existing elements in the DOM by updating their HTML content, text, attributes, and classes using JavaScript. Understand the use of innerHTML for small content changes, textContent for text updates, setAttribute for attributes, and classList to manage CSS classes dynamically.

The DOM traversal properties can also be used to update elements in the page.

Example page

Let’s view the text on a page using the HTML code below.

HTML content

The innerHTML property can be used to change the content of an element within the DOM. For example, you can add a new language to our list with the code ...