JavaScript Tip: Get the value of a text input field

Question

I'm using JavaScript to search. I want to use a form but it will break other things on my page. I have this input text field:

<input name="searchTxt" type="text" maxlength="512" id="searchTxt" class="searchField" />

This is my JavaScript code:

<script type="text/javascript">
  function searchURL(){
    window.location = "http://www.myurl.com/search/" (input text value);
  }
</script>

How to pass the value of a text field to JavaScript?

Answer 1

//创建一个监听器，当你按下一个键时触发
window.onkeyup = keyup;

//创建一个全局的Javascript变量
var inputTextValue;

function keyup(e) {
  //将你的输入文本设置为全局的Javascript变量，每次按键都会更新
  inputTextValue = e.target.value;

  //监听你按下回车键，此时你的网址将会改变为你在搜索框中输入的网址
  if (e.keyCode == 13) {
    window.location = "http://www.myurl.com/search/" + inputTextValue;
  }
}

View this feature in codepen.

Answer 2

There are several ways to get the value of the input text box directly (without wrapping the input element inside a form element):

method 1

document.getElementById('textbox_id').value Get the value of the required box

For example

document.getElementById("searchTxt").value;

Note: Methods 2, 3, 4 and 6 return a collection of elements, so use [integer] to get the required elements. For the first element, use [0], for the second element, use [1], and so on...

Method 2

Use document.getElementsByClassName('class_name')[integer].value, which returns a real-time HTMLCollection

For example

document.getElementsByClassName("searchField")[0].value;, if this is the first text box on the page.

Method 3

Use document.getElementsByTagName('tag_name')[integer].value, which also returns a live HTMLCollection

For example

document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value;, if this is the first text box on the page.

Method 4

document.getElementsByName('name')[integer].value, it also returns a real-time NodeList

For example

document.getElementsByName("searchTxt")[0].value;, if this is the first text box named 'searchtext' on the page.

Method 5

Use the powerful document.querySelector('selector').value, which uses CSS selectors to select elements

For example

• document.querySelector('#searchTxt').value; Select by id
• document.querySelector('.searchField').value; Select by class
• document.querySelector('input').value; Select by tag name
• document.querySelector('[name="searchTxt"]').value; Select by name

Method 6

document.querySelectorAll('selector')[integer].value, which also uses a CSS selector to select elements, but it returns all elements with that selector as a static NodeList.

For example

• document.querySelectorAll('#searchTxt')[0].value; Select by id
• document.querySelectorAll('.searchField')[0].value; Select by class
• document.querySelectorAll('input')[0].value; Select by tag name
• document.querySelectorAll('[name="searchTxt"]')[0].value; Select by name

support

Browser	method 1	Method 2	Method 3	Method 4	Method 5/6
IE6	Y(problem)	N	Y	Y(problem)	N
IE7	Y(problem)	N	Y	Y(problem)	N
IE8	Y	N	Y	Y(problem)	Y
IE9	Y	Y	Y	Y(problem)	Y
IE10	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
FF3.0	Y	Y	Y	Y	N IE=Internet Explorer
FF3.5/FF3.6	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y FF=Mozilla Firefox
FF4b1	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y GC=Google Chrome
GC4/GC5	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y Y=YES,N=NO
Safari4/Safari5	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Opera10.10/
Opera10.53/	Y	Y	Y	Y(problem)	Y
Opera10.60
Opera 12	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y