How to display a users text box input when they press a button

Web Coding
Sep 6, 2020
1 min read

Today I will be teaching you how to display a users text box input using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 <title>Document</title>

 <style>
 body{
 min-height: 100vh;
 display: flex;
 align-items: center;
 justify-content: center;
    }
 </style>
</head>
<body>
 <div>
      Input your message: <input type="text" name="message" id="userMessage"> <br>
 <button type="button" id="submitBtn">Submit</button>
 <p>Your message is: <span id="userMessageDisplay"> </span></p>
 

 <script src="script.js"></script>
</div>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript

let userMessage = document.getElementById('userMessage');
let submitBtn = document.getElementById('submitBtn');
let messageDisplay = document.getElementById('userMessageDisplay');

submitBtn.addEventListener('click', displayMessageFunction);

function displayMessageFunction(){
 messageDisplay.innerHTML = userMessage.value;
}

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