Javascript set value of an input field

Question

Since while I cannot set the value of an input field with type=text. Before, I always used something like this:

<input style="display: none" type="text" name="geo_poi" value="" id="geofeld" />

Then, in JavaScript i added code containing a line like this:

document.getElementById("geofeld").value = geo_poi;

This always worked. Maybe the new browsers don't want to support the method above anymore.

Solution 1

So using the following method for setting attributes worked fine.

document.getElementById("geofeld").setAttribute("value", geo_poi);

Solution 2

For situations when setAttribute does not yield any result (think HTML5 user/password input), consider this:

document.getElementById("geofeld").setRangeText("text");

Comments

[engineerX]

This does not look like "Javascript" to me. You might be using some library.

[shieldgenerator7]

@engineerX Probably jQuery

[Võ Minh]

so this is javascript right? <input type="text" onchange="passvalue()" placeholder="Item 1" id="item1" /> <input type="text" placeholder="Item 2" id="item2" /> <script> function passvalue() { var pValue = document.getElementById('item1').value; document.getElementById('item2').value = pValue; } </script>