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

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: