How to get text box value in JavaScript

Question

I am trying to use JavaScript to get the value from an HTML text box but value is not coming after white space

For example:

<input type="text" name="txtJob" value="software engineer"> 

I only get: "software" from the above. I am using a script like this:

var jobValue = document.getElementById('txtJob').value 

How do I get the full value: "software engineer"?

Answer 1

Your element does not have an ID but just a name. So you could either use getElementsByName() method to get a list of all elements with this name:

var jobValue = document.getElementsByName('txtJob')[0].value  // first element in DOM  (index 0) with name="txtJob" 

Or you assign an ID to the element:

<input type="text" name="txtJob" id="txtJob" value="software engineer"> 

Answer 2

+1 Gumbo: ‘id’ is the easiest way to access page elements. IE (pre version 8) will return things with a matching ‘name’ if it can't find anything with the given ID, but this is a bug.

i am getting only "software".

id-vs-name won't affect this; I suspect what's happened is that (contrary to the example code) you've forgotten to quote your ‘value’ attribute:

<input type="text" name="txtJob" value=software engineer>