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Asked: 2026-06-10T23:12:33+00:00

How come when I populate my textbox with what’s in xmlhttp.responseText tags are shown?

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How come when I populate my textbox with what’s in xmlhttp.responseText tags are shown? It shows 

<!DOCTYPE html><html><body></body></html>

as well as what I want it to show. Is there a way to make it so that the tags aren’t shown? The Javascript and AJAX code is as follows:

function loadDoc()
{
   var xmlhttp;

   // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
   if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
   {
      xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
   }
   // code for IE6, IE5
   else
   {
      xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   }

   xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
   {
      if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
      {
         document.getElementById("textbox").value=xmlhttp.responseText;
      }
   }

   xmlhttp.open("GET","loadTextBox.php?id=4",true);
   xmlhttp.send();
}

ADDED-Code for loadTextBox.php is as follows:

<?php
---placeholder for correct db login info---

$result = $mysql->query(---placeholder for correct SQL query---);

while ($row = $result->fetch_object())
{
   $queryResult = $row->column_1;
}
$textboxValue = $queryResult;
echo $textboxValue; 
?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, I was unable to reproduce your problem, so I had to improvise slightly to get the same responseText as you. Anyway, this is what I came up with, please let me know if it doesn’t work:

    var doc = window.document.createElement("doc");
doc.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
document.getElementById("textbox").value=doc.innerHTML;

    Replace your current instance of:

    document.getElementById("textbox").value=xmlhttp.responseText;

    With that.

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