[thelist] DOM - .childNode and How to Target?

[Christian Heilmann]

> > > What about trying:
> > >
> > > document.getElementById('Username').nodeValue = 'Email Address';
> >
> > That doesn't make sense at all...
> > document.getElementById('Username') is an input element and as
> > elements are not text nodes the nodeValue is null.
>
> How about:
>
> document.getElementById('Username').value = 'Email Address';
>
> or
>
> document.getElementById('Username').setAttribute('value', 'Email Address');
>
> then?

This changes the value of the field, not of the label and that is the
task at hand.

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