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Sean Bone
Sean Bone

Reputation: 3556

Converting string to HTML in JavaScript

I am extracting content from an HTML textarea using JS, in order to then put it into a <div>. Now, I know the content is going to be valid HTML - so I assumed that if I set it as the innerHTML of another element it would be parsed by the browser - but it's not. I'm getting the plain string (with tags and all) on the screen.

This is basically my script:

var txt = document.getElementById("contentTextArea").innerHTML; //Get the content
document.getElementById("contentOutput").innerHTML = txt;

Here's the HTML, just to be sure:

<textarea name="content" id="contentTextArea">
<p>Text...</p>
</textarea>

What am I doing wrong? Is there another way of doing this? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (2)

akash
akash

Reputation: 2157

var txt = document.getElementById("contentTextArea").value; //Get the content

Upvotes: 3

mohkhan
mohkhan

Reputation: 12335

Textareas support value not innerHTML. YOu should do this...

document.getElementById("contentTextArea").value;

Upvotes: 2

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