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

I think the textbox you are trying to access is not yet loaded onto the page at the time your javascript is being executed.

ie., For the Javascript to be able to read the textbox from the DOM of the page, the textbox must be available as an element. If the javascript is getting called before the textbox is written onto the page, the textbox will not be visible and so NULL is returned.