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:

Answer 1

+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: