April 30, 2022

How to Trim Input Value in Javascript

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to trim input value in javascript. Trimming input value simply means removing any extra space at the beginning as well as at the end from the value present in the input element. For a newbie developer, it can be a bit tricky to trim an input value.

There are numerous ways to trim an input value. But for the sake of simplicity, we will use trim() method. The trim() method removes any extra space at the beginning and at the end of a string.

In the following example, we will enter some random text in the input element and upon click of a button, we will trim the input value and display the result on the screen. Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

We have 3 elements in the HTML file (div, input, and button). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.
The innerText for the button element is “Trim”.

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">
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    
    <div>
        <input type="text">
        <button>Trim</button>        
    </div>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

body {
    text-align: center;
}

input, button {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 10px 20px;
}

div {
    display: inline-block;
}

Javascript

We have selected the button element and input element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in btnTrim and input variables respectively.
We have attached a click event listener to the button element.
In the event handler function, we are getting value from the input element using value property and calling the trim() method. We are storing the returned value in the str variable.

We are setting str as value of the input element.

let btnTrim = document.querySelector("button");
let input = document.querySelector("input");

btnTrim.addEventListener("click", () => {
  let str = input.value.trim();
  input.value = str;
});

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