I have this code and I want to save a contenteditable text to a variable so i can print it on screen. HTML:
<input type="button" value="save edits" onclick="saveEdits()"/>
<p id="update"></p>```
and JS:
```function saveEdits() {
//get the editable element
var editElem = document.getElementById("myText").value;
document.getElementById("update").innerHTML=editElem;
//write a confirmation to the user
}```
Thank you for your time.
I'd try using innerHTML:
function saveEdits() {
//get the editable element
document.getElementById("update").innerHTML = document.getElementById("myText").innerHTML;
//write a confirmation to the user
}
From what I understand you want this :
function saveEdits() {
//get the editable element
var editElem = document.getElementById("myText").value;
document.getElementById("update").innerHTML=editElem;
//write a confirmation to the user
alert("your text have been saved");
}<input type="text" placeholder="type content here" id="myText">
<input type="button" value="save edits" onclick="saveEdits()"/>
<p id="update"></p>The text is stocked in the editElem variable.
Just change .value to .innerHTML .
function saveEdits() {
//get the editable element
var editElem = document.getElementById("myText").innerHTML;
document.getElementById("update").innerHTML=editElem;
//write a confirmation to the user
}<h1 id="myText" contenteditable="true">Title</h1>
<input type="button" value="save edits" onclick="saveEdits()"/>
<p id="update"></p>