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

Please check this fiddle and let me know if you get an alert of null value. I have copied your code there and added a couple of alerts. Just like others, I also dont see a null being returned, I get an empty string. Which browser are you using?