--转自http://blog.163.com/yw_0721/blog/static/7164579720102932157759/
简单的说innerHTML和outerHTML、innerText与outerText的不同之处在于:
1)、innerHTML与outerHTML在设置对象的内容时包含的HTML会被解析,而innerText与outerText则不会。2)、在设置时,innerHTML与innerText仅设置标签内的文本,而outerHTML与outerText设置包括标签在内的文本。

特别说明:
innerHTML是符合W3C标准的属性 ,而 innerText、outerText、outerHTML 只适用于 IE浏览器 ,因此,尽可能地去使用innerHTML,而少用innerText,如果要输出不含HTML标签的内容,可以使用innerHTML取得包含HTML标签的内容后,再用正则表达式去除HTML标签,下面是一个简单的符合W3C标准的示例:
<a href="javas<wbr style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; line-height:25px; text-align:left">cript:alert(document.getElementById('test').innerHTML.replace(/<.+?>/gim,''))">无HTML,符合W3C标准</a></span><br style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><br style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><em>详细出处参考:http://jhxk.javaeye.com/blog/353309</em></span><br style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><br style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; line-height:25px; text-align:left">代码练习:</span><span style="font-size:12px; line-height:23px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; text-align:left; color:rgb(128,0,128)"><strong>(ie生效,ff中只有innerHTML是对的)</strong></span><br style="line-height:25px; color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:Arial,Helvetica,simsun,u5b8bu4f53; font-size:14px; line-height:25px; text-align:left"></span><pre name="code" class="html"><script type="text/javascript"> function getinnerHTML() { var e=window.document.getElementById("testdiv"); alert(e.innerHTML); //<p>白云</p> } function getouterHTML() { var e=window.document.getElementById("testdiv"); alert(e.outerHTML); //<div id="testdiv"><p>白云</p></div> } function getinnerText() { var e=window.document.getElementById("testdiv"); alert(e.innerText); //白云 } function getouterText() { var e=window.document.getElementById("testdiv"); alert(e.outerText); //白云 } </script> <div id="testdiv"><p>白云</p></div> <p> <input type="button" name="Submit2" value="innerHTML" onClick="getinnerHTML()"> <input type="button" name="Submit" value="outerHTML" onClick="getouterHTML()"> <input type="button" name="Submit2" value="innerHTML" onClick="getinnerText() "> <input type="button" name="Submit2" value="innerHTML" onClick="getouterText()"> </p></pre> <br></wbr>