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liam mcinnes
Courses Plus Student 3,517 PointsRequired element
Hey, I'm pretty new to html css and php, I'm making a website at the moment and im wanting to make a page for when the user first Vists the page it has a tet box that says "name" and saves the name. So on other pages it can be like "welcome (user name).
Is there any treehouse videos that shows this? Or can somone lead me that way :) thank you very much!
3 Answers
anil rahman
7,786 PointsIf it was a box so you would give that box an id lets say "box" for now.
var value = document.getElementById("box").value;
so this is the same as i said before it gets an element by it's id in this case the "box" and by adding .value at the end it's saying find my box and get the value typed in and then put it all in my new variable called value.
Now you have the name they type in this value variable.
anil rahman
7,786 PointsJavaScript
var name = prompt("Please enter your name"); //store what is typed in name variable
//then later on whereever you want to display this name just add this
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML ="Hello " + person";
//remember where it says "demo" in getElement part you want to change it to the id of your div or p tag or h1 tag or w.e.
liam mcinnes
Courses Plus Student 3,517 PointsThankyou but instead of the prompt, is there a way to add when they type it in a text box on the screen like the form element. Thank yku