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what type of values given to getElementById() method
getElementById expects a string.
getElementById
The following code:
var element = document.getElementById('myId');
finds the following element and assigns it to element
element
<div id="myId"></div>
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just pass the id of any element like <input type="text" id="text" /> just use getElementById("text")
<input type="text" id="text" />
getElementById("text")
a single DOM object, of a specialized class depending on the nature of the element identified by the given ID
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