How do you access the result of a text box in HTML?

Question

Been working on HTML lately and realized that in one of my projects I need a way to access what the user puts in the textbox, so how do you do that? In case you need to know, I created the textbox using <input type = text>

Answer 1

you need javascript for that!

Answer 2

function init {
let text = document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value;

alert (text);
}
window.onload = init;

Answer 3

Yeah I know but I can't think of how to in JavaScript either. Been learning that for months

Answer 4

Ah I forgot about the .value method. Thank you!