I have an array that comes in from from my API that I would like to arrange in a way that is better for the user (namely, in a column as opposed to the typical comma separated printed array).
This is my JS Fiddle to give a clearer picture: https://jsfiddle.net/2z89owas/
My question is, how can I get output3 to display just like output (and maintain its status as an iterable array like it was as dates)?
First you should not be using value for an html element. You can use .value for extracting value from inputs. Change your line to:
var val = document.getElementById('output2').innerHTML;
Afterwards, you have to split the same way you did join.
var dates3 = val.split('<br>');
document.getElementById('output3').innerHTML = dates3;
You can directly use join, something like:
document.getElementById('output3').innerHTML = dates.join(',');
You can try mapping over the contents of dates instead, as so:
let datesElem = dates.map(date =>`<p>${date}</p>`);
// test: console.log(datesElem)
document.getElementById('output3').innerHTML = datesElem
