Suppose I have the following HTML code, how can I pass the user's input to execute(str) javascript function as an argument?
<body>
<input name="textbox1" type="text" />
<input name="buttonExecute" onclick="execute(//send the user's input in textbox1 to this function//)" type="button" value="Execute" />
</body>
You could just get the input value in the onclick-event like so:
onclick="execute(document.getElementById('textbox1').value);"
You would of course have to add an id to your textbox
As opposed to passing the text as a variable, you can use the DOM to retrieve the data in your function:
var text = document.getElementsByName("textbox1").value;
You could either access the element’s value by its name:
document.getElementsByName("textbox1"); // returns a list of elements with name="textbox1"
document.getElementsByName("textbox1")[0] // returns the first element in DOM with name="textbox1"
So:
<input name="buttonExecute" onclick="execute(document.getElementsByName('textbox1')[0].value)" type="button" value="Execute" />
Or you assign an ID to the element that then identifies it and you can access it with getElementById:
<input name="textbox1" id="textbox1" type="text" />
<input name="buttonExecute" onclick="execute(document.getElementById('textbox1').value)" type="button" value="Execute" />
This is what I have done. (Adapt from all of your answers)
<input name="textbox1" type="text" id="txt1"/>
<input name="buttonExecute" onclick="execute(document.getElementById('txt1').value)" type="button" value="Execute" />
It works. Thanks to all of you. :)