Javascript document.getElementById(“id”).value returning null instead of empty string when the element is an empty text box

Question

I have a text box element whose value I am trying to access using document.getElementById(\"id-name\").value. I find that the call is returning a null instead o

Answer 1

This demo is returning correctly for me in Chrome 14, FF3 and FF5 (with Firebug):

var mytextvalue = document.getElementById("mytext").value;
console.log(mytextvalue == ''); // true
console.log(mytextvalue == null); // false

and changing the console.log to alert, I still get the desired output in IE6.