How to get the value of an attribute in Javascript

Question

I have this input line which I am trying to extract the text of the value attribute:

Answer 1

OR with jQuery you can get value from textbox like

var val1 = $(".class name").val();//to get value by class name
var val1 = $("#id").val();//to get value by id

Both will do same.

Regards

Answer 2

element.getAttribute("value") returns value which was set in the markup, which is not necessarily same as element.value.

Also, value attribute of an element is only synchronized one way - from markup to the object and vice versa doesn't happen.

So, if you want to get the value that is set programmatically, you need to write

element.value

else, if you need to get the value which was defined in the markup as

<input value="abc">

you need to do element.getAttribute("value")

Answer 3

Node values and Element Attributes are different parts of an html tag. So, you have to use element.value instead.

This is a an example, to show you how you can fetch value, data, attribute from an input field.

The HTML input field.

<input type="text" id="profile" data-nationality="Eritrean" value="Simon">

and the javascript.

var el = document.getElementById("user-profile"); 

console.log(el.value) // Simon
console.log(el.getAttribute("id")) // profile
console.log(el.dataset.nationality) // Eritrean