sayHello, onclick of this button. Let's, in fact, actually put it right here, so we can see it a little bit better.
So, onclick of this button, we're going to call a function, sayHello. Let's go ahead and define the sayHello function, let's go ahead and save that. And actually, go ahead and click this now. We'll get an error, because sayHello is not defined here. So let's go ahead and define that sayHello function. So, let's say function, and the function name is going to be sayHello, and we don't need any arguments for now. And for now, in the body of this function, all I want to do is be able to retrieve the value that the user typed in into this text box. So how do I do that? Well, I can, once again, use my document, let's do console.log, and once again, can use my document. Let's give some spacing over here, document.getElementById, and I could say, what ID do I want? Well, let's go take a look at our HTML, and the ID of the input element is name. So I could go ahead and copy that. And I won't get only ById name. But if I just do that and leave it alone right this way, and save that, now when I click Save, Say It, what I'm going to get is, I'm going to get the actual element. Well, I don't really want the element, I want the value inside the element that the user typed in. So, the way I do that is by accessing the value property. That value, when I do this and save it, so now if I say Say It, nothing's really going to show up because I didn't really type anything, but I'd say, Say Yaakov, and say, Say It, now Yaakov value is going to show up. Now my ultimate goal here is that the webpage in this space right here should great me, Say hello Yaakov. So one of the ways I could do that is, first of all, save the value that I retrieved from the input element that the user typed in, save it in a variable. So let's go ahead and do that. Let's say var message, or let's say name, actually. And, let's go ahead and erase this. Let's see if this will fit.
And no, it doesn't. So let's go ahead and just put it in a second line, and it'll just say, var name =, and we'll retrieve the name that the user typed in. Okay. So far, so good. Let's go and define a message. And the message will be, Hello, space, last name that we retrieved, plus, and let's give it an exclamation point. Okay, so now that we have the message, it's time to actually insert this message somewhere here. How do we do that? Well let's take a look at our HTML document. There's this div that we defined and left completely empty. And it has an ID called, content. Okay, so that means we could retrieve it, as well. Okay, so let's go ahead and do that, we know how to do that, at this point. We could say document.getElementById, and ID was content. So how do we now insert things? It wouldn't be that value because that's only for input elements and a div is not an input element. But there is a property to be able to insert text inside of an element. So let's go ahead and actually put this on a separate line, so I could see it a little better. And the value is textContent. So if I say textContent, and say the textContent is equal to message, and put a semicolon after that, and save that, so now when I say, Yaakov, and say, Say It, this message shows up. And in fact, if we actually inspect the element, let's go ahead and do that. And you could see, let's lower this a little bit somehow. You could see that we have div id = content. And inside of it, you see Hello Yaakov. Now, that's all great. Except now, what I really want is, I want this Yaakov to be in h2. This is Lecture 53, that's an h1, I want the Yaakov to be in h2. Well, let's try to see if we could do that. Let's go back to the console, and let's just augment this with a h2, and we'll close h2 right here to make it into a string. Okay, so now if we save that, let's say again, Yakov, and we'll click Say It, hm, not quite what we wanted, right, h2 thinks, or at least the browser thinks, that this h2 is just text, not really something that the browser should render. Well, we can actually fix that because there's another property that tells the browser that what I'm inserting is actually HTML for the browser to render. So let's go ahead and copy this and comment it out. And we'll have another line that looks almost just like that, except the text content is going to be replaced with another property called innerHTML. So when we say innerHTML, the thing that gets assigned to it is going to be interpreted as HTML and therefore rendered. So now if we save that, and type in Yaakov right here, and now, we see that this is now, in fact, an h2, so if we inspect the element, we could see here now that the div with the ID content has an h2 inside of it, that is actually being definitely rendered as an h2. Now believe it or not, armed just with this knowledge alone, you could already do quite a bit inside your HTML page. Let's go ahead and put some behavior into this that has a little bit more smarts into it. I want this thing to say, hello, whatever the name is that the user provides, unless, of course, they say, hello student, student, in which case, I don't want it just to say, hello student. I want that value to trigger a side effect to the page and change our title a little bit. So how can we accomplish that? Well, we could definitely test inside this sayHello method, or sayHello function, we could test, if name, let's actually, let's move that all the way here, if name is ===, because we want it to be a string, equal to student, then I want to do a couple of things. Number one is I want to retrieve what this title is, because I want to add a little bit of a string right here, I want to add something else to it, I want to say, Lecture 53, and something else. So, the way I do that is, I could say, var title =, and at this point, let's go ahead and actually put it on the second line. And say, document, and we can, if we want it to say getElementById, right here, and basically specify title, because if we look at our index HTML page, our title, our h1 has a title as an ID. However, there's another method that's very worth while for you to learn, and it's much more generic than getElementById, because getElementById really just restricts you to be able to select things within your page by ID, but you might want to be able to select it by other things. So, like for example, the way you select things using CSS. So, the method we could use, and instead of getElementById, is called querySelector. And in this case, querySelector takes not the ID name but actually, a selector. So if we wanted to select it by ID, in this case, title, you would do the same thing you would do in CSS by selecting this element. Well, the way you would do that is, you would actually specify #title, right, because that's a CSS selector, not just title itself. So, this should go ahead and grab the h1 element out of our HTML page, except we don't just want the h1 element, what we want is the textContent of the h1 element. So let's go ahead and say, .textContent. And that will be the value of our title. So now, all we're going to do is now we're going to augment the title a little bit. So let's go ahead and say, title, +=, you've seen this before, it just means title equals title plus something, but the easier way is just to say +=. And we're going to add something. Let's say, & Lovin' it!, so it's Lecture 53 and Lovin' It. So, the students are really loving it at this point. Am I correct or am I correct? Anyway, so let's go on. So now, let's go ahead and save this. And, we'll go ahead and put a name here. Well, if I put Yaakov, right? It will just say, Hello Yaakov. But if I put student, got to spell it correctly, and say, say hello, Hello student!, but, nothing really changed here. Why is that? Well, that's actually simple. Right? Remember, pass by reference, pass by value? Or copy by reference, copy by value? Well, this is a primitive, and we're copying a primitive out of textContent into this title. So therefore, when we change the title to textContent, property is not changed at all. What we actually have to do is turn around and explicitly set it. So let's go ahead and grab this whole document thing right here. And we'll put it over here and we'll say textContent equal to title, that's the new title that we've updated right here. So now, when we save that, and go ahead and try it with, let's say, Yaakov, and if we say, click Say It, we will see, Hello Yaakov. But if we actually put student in here and click Say It, now, we not only said hello student, but we've also updated our h1 title, and now it says, Lecture 53 & Lovin' it. Now, the last thing I want to point out to you is that this is a selector by ID. But we don't have to select it by ID because this is nothing more than using CSS selectors to select elements within our page. Well, if we take a look here, we could use something else. We could use the fact that there's only one h1 element in the entire page. So if I wanted to, I could simplify this by saying h1. So, I erase this and just say h1. So, h1 is the only element that this is going to select, and, in fact, if there would be more than one h1 element in my page, what this will return is the first matching element. If you wanted a list of elements that matches a particular query selection, you would use a different method, I think, I believe it's called query all selector. So, anyway, so at this point, we just want one. So if we say h1, this will accomplish exactly the same thing as calling it by title. So if we save that, and test that out by saying student, and click Say It, and you can see this was just the same as before and it's Lecture 54 and still loving it.
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