I’ve been diving into web development lately, and I hit a bit of a snag that I could really use some advice on. So, here’s the deal: I’m trying to create a simple web page where I want to pull in the text content from one HTML element and use that to dynamically set the value of another element’s attribute. I’ve got some basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, but I could use help figuring out the best way to make this work.

For example, let’s say I have a paragraph with some text, and I want to use that text to set the value of a placeholder attribute in an input field. So when the page loads, the input field’s placeholder should show whatever text is in the paragraph. Seems straightforward enough, right? But I’m not completely sure how to go about it.

One thought I had was to use JavaScript to grab the text content of the paragraph element when the page loads and then set it to the input field’s placeholder. I guess my question is twofold: First, is that the best approach to take, or is there a more efficient way to handle this? And second, if so, could anyone walk me through how to do it? I tried some basic DOM manipulation methods to achieve this, but I just can’t seem to get it right.

Also, if you have any tips on handling this dynamically, like what if the text in the paragraph changes later and I want the input field to update automatically, that would be awesome! Overall, I’m just looking for any insights or examples you might have that could point me in the right direction. I really appreciate any help you can offer!