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I am trying to create this button for a custom field that I have on my website

<button type="button"
        onclick="document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = Date()">
        Click me to display Date and Time.</button>

The thing is, when i hit the button to show me the input from a custom field that I have on my wordpress site. I put the name on the field instead of 'Date()' and the id of the div i have but nothing happens. Problem is i don't know what code should I write in order to do just that.

Update(based on brownian): So, this is an infographic that explains better what i need: what i want to achieve

how it looks the custom field element

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    Show the code you are working with, not some generic example code.
    – Nicolai Grossherr
    Commented Apr 19, 2015 at 20:23

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Is this something you wish to achieve?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First JavaScript</h1>

<button type="button"
     onclick="var the_id=document.getElementById('my_field').value;
        document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML=
        document.getElementById(the_id).innerHTML;">
Click me to display some other string.</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<input id="my_field" type="text"></a>

<div id="someother">Hi there!</div>

</body>
</html>
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  • if instead of text i put the id of the field and instead of id="text" i replace it with id="my_field" it still doesn't show anything :/
    – Alex DS
    Commented Apr 19, 2015 at 21:49
  • If instead you explain what you want to achieve --- not to break... ,) Ok, I've updated my answer --- is that what you'd like to achieve?
    – brownian
    Commented Apr 20, 2015 at 7:06
  • Brownian, I just updated my question with a graphic explaingin better what I am trying to get. Hope it explains better. PS: I have tried you updated code, but no luck. I am not sure what do I do wrong. I have written the code in the picture
    – Alex DS
    Commented Apr 20, 2015 at 23:41
  • So, if you replace "not working" with "working" this will work. I don't know where email is stored actually.
    – brownian
    Commented Apr 21, 2015 at 3:48
  • instead of 'not working' i want it to show the email address that was enter inside the custom field
    – Alex DS
    Commented Apr 21, 2015 at 6:21

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