Baseline Widely available
The defaultValue
property of the HTMLOutputElement
interface represents the default text content of this <output>
element. Getting and setting this value is equivalent to getting and setting textContent
on the <output>
.
A string.
ExamplesIn the example below, the defaultValue
still returns the value originally written in the HTML. Changes to value
will not affect the defaultValue
or its textContent
in the DOM.
<fieldset>
<legend>Add two numbers</legend>
<p>
<input type="number" id="operand1" value="5" aria-label="First number" />
+
<input type="number" id="operand2" value="7" aria-label="Second number" />
=
<output
id="result"
for="operand1 operand2"
aria-live="polite"
aria-controls="output"
>12</output
>
</p>
</fieldset>
<pre id="logs" aria-live="polite"></pre>
const logs = document.getElementById("logs");
const operand1 = document.getElementById("operand1");
const operand2 = document.getElementById("operand2");
const result = document.getElementById("result");
function updateResult() {
result.value = operand1.valueAsNumber + operand2.valueAsNumber;
logs.innerText = `result.defaultValue: ${result.defaultValue}\nresult.value: ${result.value}`;
}
operand1.addEventListener("input", updateResult);
operand2.addEventListener("input", updateResult);
updateResult();
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4