Pure JavaScript alternative to jQuery's .html()

The following code is used to ajax-load a div.

The only issue I have with it is that .html() renders raw html, and so I thought it might be a good idea to replace that with a pure JS alternative so that my view is clean of any escaping raw html.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about this.

$(document).ready(function() {
      $('.ajax_load').each(function(index, element) {
        var url = $(element).data('remote-url')
        if (url) {
          $.get(url, function(responseText) {
            $(element).html(responseText);
          })
        } else {
          console.log("missing url for ajax!")
        }
      })
    })

You can use textContent:

The Node.textContent property represents the text content of a node and its descendants.

element.textContent = responseText;