how can you access the inner content of a text input field?

To access the inner content (text) of a text input field, you should use the JavaScript value property of the input element. The value property gets or sets the current content entered by the user in the input field. For example, if you have an input field like this:

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<input type="text" id="myInput">

You can get its content in JavaScript with:

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let content = document.getElementById("myInput").value;

Note that input elements do not use the innerHTML or innerText properties to access their content because they are self-closing tags and do not have inner HTML or inner text nodes. Summary:

• Use element.value to get the text content of an input field such as <input> or <textarea>.
• innerText, textContent, and innerHTML are used for elements that contain nested HTML or text, but not for input fields.

This approach works for all text input fields and is the standard way to access the content inside them dynamically via JavaScript.