April 24, 2022

How to Check if Textbox Contains a Character in Javascript

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to check if textbox contains a character in javascript. A string is formed by the combination of multiple characters and a character in a string can be a letter, number, or a special character.

In HTML, a textbox is created using either input element or textarea element. Input element is suitable for a single line text content and textarea element is suitable for multiline text content. From a developer perspective, it can be a bit tricky to find if a textbox contains a character.

There are numerous ways to check if a textbox contains a character. But for the sake of simplicity, we will use includes() method and ternary operator (?). The includes() method is used to perform a case-sensitive search to detect whether a string contains another string or not and returns a Boolean value.

In the following example, we have one textbox where we will enter some random text. Upon click of a button, we will check if it contains a character and display the result on the screen. Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

We have 4 elements in the HTML file (div, input, button, and h1). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.
The innerText for the button element is “Check” and for the h1 element, it is “Result”.
We have done some basic styling using CSS and added the link to our style.css stylesheet inside the head element.
We have also included our javascript file script.js with a script tag at the bottom.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  <title>Document</title>
</head>

<body>

  <div class="container">    
    <input type="text" />
    <button>Check</button>
    <h1>Result</h1>
  </div>

  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>

.container {        
  text-align: center;
}

button {
margin-top: 10px;
padding: 10px 20px;
}

input {
display: block;
padding: 5px 10px;
margin: auto;
}

Javascript

We have selected the button element, input element, and h1 element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in btnCheck, inputEl, and output variables respectively.
We have attached a click event listener to the button element.
We have a global variable myChar which holds a character "d" as its value.
In the event handler function, we are getting value from the textbox and storing it in the value variable.
We are using the includes() method to verify whether value contains myChar or not. If it returns true, that means value does contain myChar.
It will always be true if the textbox contains a text that has "d" character in it.
Depending upon the result of the check, we will assign “Yes” or “No” to the result variable.
We are displaying the result in the h1 element using the innerText property.

let btnCheck = document.querySelector("button");
let inputEl = document.querySelector("input");
let output = document.querySelector("h1");

let myChar = "d";

btnCheck.addEventListener("click", () => {
  let value = inputEl.value;
  let result = value.includes(myChar) ? "Yes" : "No";
  output.innerText = result;
});

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