---
title: Visible Text Content
key: visible-text-content
unambiguous: true
objective: true
input_aspects:
  - CSS styling
  - DOM tree
---

The _visible text content_ of an [element][] is a set of all [visible][] [text nodes][] that are [descendants][] in the [flat tree][] of this element

[descendants]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-tree-descendant 'DOM tree descendant, 2020/08/18'
[element]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#element 'DOM element, 2020/08/18'
[flat tree]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scoping/#flat-tree 'CSS draft, flat tree, 2020/08/18'
[visible]: #visible
[text nodes]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#text 'DOM text, 2020/08/18'