While typing in a text input field, printing the content typed in a div

You use the onkeyup event

Searching with ids is a lot easier. Add ids to your elements as follows:

<div class='printchatbox' id='printchatbox'></div>

<input type='text' name='fname' class='chatinput' id='chatinput'>

JS

var inputBox = document.getElementById('chatinput');

inputBox.onkeyup = function(){
    document.getElementById('printchatbox').innerHTML = inputBox.value;
}

Here is a Live example


There are many ways to get this done, possibly the easiest is to use jQuery. In the example below I am using the jQuery keyUp() function to listen for keyboard events, then writing the updated value to the .printChatBox

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

  <div class='printchatbox'>CHANGE ME</div>
  <input type='text' name='fname' class='chatinput'>

<script type="script/javascript">
  $('.chatinput').keyup(function(event) {
    newText = event.target.value;
    $('.printchatbox').text(newText);
  });
</script>
</body>
</html>

I've posted a working example here: http://jsbin.com/axibuw/1/edit


http://jsfiddle.net/3kpay/

<div class='printchatbox' id='printchatbox'></div>

<input type='text' name='fname' class='chatinput' 
    onkeyUp="document.getElementById('printchatbox').innerHTML = this.value" />

In your HTML,

<div id='printchatbox'></div>
<br>
<input type='text' id='fname' class='chatinput' onkeyup="annotate()">

In JS,

function annotate(){
  var typed= document.getElementById("fname").value;
  document.getElementById("printchatbox").innerHTML= typed;
}

Click here for LIVE DEMO

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Javascript

Html

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