JavaScript get TextArea input via .value or .innerHTML?
Is it ok to get the value of a textarea element in JavaScript with myTextArea.value or should I use myTextArea.innerHTML ? Thank you. You should use .value myTextArea.value For div and span, you can use innerHTML, but for textarea use value. Please see the example below. <script language="javascript/text"> document.getElementById("spanText").innerHTML ="text"; document.getElementById("divText").innerHTML ="text"; document.getElementById("textArea").value ="text"; </script> <span id="spanText"></span> <div id="divText"></div> <textarea id="textArea"></textArea> One difference is that you can