InnerHTML in IE with the Pre Tag

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Hello!
I find another way to do this.

if ("innerText" in elem) {
elem.innerText = myPreText;
} else {
elem.innerHTML = myPreText;
}

if ("innerText" in elem) {
elem.innerText = myPreText;
} else {
elem.innerHTML = myPreText;
}
Does not work properly in Webkit Browsers i.e. Safari, Konqueror etc...
Try
if ("innerText" in elem && "outerHTML" in elem) {
elem.innerText = myPreText;
} else {
elem.innerHTML = myPreText;
}

I don't like the outerHTML solution, because if you have any properties on your PRE tag (like "id", "class", etc), you have to manually recreate them.
Instead, I do this:
element.innerHTML = newtext;
element.innerText = newtext;
IE supports both properties, but the second one overrides the first and doesn't perform the text normalization, so it looks correct. Browsers that don't support innerText (like Firefox) don't seem to have the same problem with innerHTML, so for them, the first line does the trick and the second does nothing (just sets a property on the element that the browser doesn't care about).
This also has the advantage of working even if the element started out empty -- if you did something like "if (element.innerText) { element.innerText = newtext } ..." this might be a problem.