getText method

getText()

Gets the text of this paragraph including the end of paragraph character.

getText()

Remarks

The text of all child nodes is concatenated and the end of paragraph character is appended as follows:

  • If the paragraph is the last paragraph of Body, then Aspose.Words.ControlChar.SectionBreak (\x000c) is appended.

  • If the paragraph is the last paragraph of Cell, then Aspose.Words.ControlChar.Cell (\x0007) is appended.

  • For all other paragraphs Aspose.Words.ControlChar.ParagraphBreak (\r) is appended.

The returned string includes all control and special characters as described in ControlChar.

Examples

Shows how to add, update and delete child nodes in a CompositeNode’s collection of children.

let doc = new aw.Document();

// An empty document, by default, has one paragraph.
expect(doc.firstSection.body.paragraphs.count).toEqual(1);

// Composite nodes such as our paragraph can contain other composite and inline nodes as children.
let paragraph = doc.firstSection.body.firstParagraph;
let paragraphText = new aw.Run(doc, "Initial text. ");
paragraph.appendChild(paragraphText);

// Create three more run nodes.
let run1 = new aw.Run(doc, "Run 1. ");
let run2 = new aw.Run(doc, "Run 2. ");
let run3 = new aw.Run(doc, "Run 3. ");

// The document body will not display these runs until we insert them into a composite node
// that itself is a part of the document's node tree, as we did with the first run.
// We can determine where the text contents of nodes that we insert
// appears in the document by specifying an insertion location relative to another node in the paragraph.
expect(paragraph.getText().trim()).toEqual("Initial text.");

// Insert the second run into the paragraph in front of the initial run.
paragraph.insertBefore(run2, paragraphText);

expect(paragraph.getText().trim()).toEqual("Run 2. Initial text.");

// Insert the third run after the initial run.
paragraph.insertAfter(run3, paragraphText);

expect(paragraph.getText().trim()).toEqual("Run 2. Initial text. Run 3.");

// Insert the first run to the start of the paragraph's child nodes collection.
paragraph.prependChild(run1);

expect(paragraph.getText().trim()).toEqual("Run 1. Run 2. Initial text. Run 3.");
expect(paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Any, true).count).toEqual(4);

// We can modify the contents of the run by editing and deleting existing child nodes.
//paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Run, true).toArray().at(1).text = "Updated run 2. ";
//paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Run, true).remove(paragraphText);
paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Run, true).toArray().at(1).asRun().text = "Updated run 2. ";
paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Run, true).remove(paragraphText);

expect(paragraph.getText().trim()).toEqual("Run 1. Updated run 2. Run 3.");
expect(paragraph.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Any, true).count).toEqual(3);

See Also

Paragraph.getEffectiveTabStops method Paragraph.insertField method