How to take in text input from a keyboard and store it into a variable?

Question

I would just like something simple to read text from a keyboard and store it into a variable. So for:

var color = \'blue\'

I would like the

Answer 1

If I understood your need, that should do it:

html:

javascript:

function setValue(){
   color=document.getElementById("userInput").value;
   //do something with color
}

if you don't need to do something everytime the input changes, you can just get the input whenever you want to do something with 'color':

html:

javascript:

color=document.getElementById("userInput").value;