{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/tmpvar/jsdom/issues/1245","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/tmpvar/jsdom/issues/1245/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/tmpvar/jsdom/issues/1245/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/tmpvar/jsdom/issues/1245/events","html_url":"https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/issues/1245","id":108238981,"number":1245,"title":"innerText implementation","user":{"login":"vsemozhetbyt","id":10393198,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10393198?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt","html_url":"https://github.com/vsemozhetbyt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vsemozhetbyt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-09-25T00:20:17Z","updated_at":"2015-09-25T00:20:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"*jsdom* is a great tool for web scraping. However the `textContent` is a very inconvenient way to get readable text for html2text conversion.\r\n\r\nTere is a wonderful article about usefulness of the negligible `innerText` in many cases:\r\n\r\nhttp://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/\r\n\r\nThe author suggests `getSelection().toString()` as a very slow workaround, but `getSelection` is not implemented in the *jsdom* yet.\r\n\r\nCould you consider an implementing of the `innerText` in the *jsdom*? The author has done a great exploration about it, he has even add a simple spec at the end."}}