HTML DOM Input Text list Property

Last Updated : 26 Aug, 2022

The input Text list property in HTML DOM is used to return a reference to the datalist element that contains an input text field.

Syntax:

textObject.list.id

Return Value: It returns a string value that represents the value of the id attribute of the datalist element.

Example: Below HTML code used to return the input text list property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title> HTML DOM Input Text list Property</title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align:center">
 
    <h1 style="color:green">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Input Text list property</h2>
 
    <label><b>Your Cars Name:</b> </label>
    <input type="text" list="cars" id="text_id" value="">
 
    <datalist id="cars">
        <option value="BMW" />
        <option value="Bentley" />
        <option value="Mercedes" />
        <option value="Audi" />
        <option value="Volkswagen" />
    </datalist><br><br>
 
    <button onclick="btnclick()">Click Here!</button>
 
    <p id="paraID" style="font-size:20px"></p>
 
 
 
    <!-- script to access text field -->
    <script>
        function btnclick() {
            var txt = document.getElementById("text_id").list.id;
            document.getElementById("paraID").innerHTML = txt;
        }
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>