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^DOMTextLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026

DOMText::splitText

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMText::splitText — Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset

Description

public function DOMText::splitText(int $offset): DOMText|false

Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, keeping both in the tree as siblings.

After being split, this node will contain all the content up to the offset. If the original node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling of the original node. When the offset is equal to the length of this node, the new node has no data.

Parameters

offset

The offset at which to split, starting from 0.

Return Values

The new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and after the offset.


<DOMText::isWhitespaceInElementContentDOMXPath>
^DOMTextLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026