how to add <script>alert('test');</script> inside a text box?

. I usually do it element.value="<script>alert('test');</script>".

If sounds like you are generating an inline <script> element, in which case the </script> will end the HTML element and cause the script to terminate in the middle of the string.

Escape the / so that it isn't treated as an end tag by the HTML parser:

element.value = "<script>alert('test');<\/script>"

I want to alert('test'); in an input type text but it should not execute the alert(alert prompt).

<input type="text" value="<script>alert('test');</script>" />

Produces:

You can do this programatically via JavaScript. First obtain a reference to the input element, then set the value attribute.

var inputElement = document.querySelector("input");
inputElement.value = "<script>alert('test');<\/script>";

is you want fix XSS on input element? you can encode string before output to input field

PHP:

$str = htmlentities($str);

C#:

str = WebUtility.HtmlEncode(str);

after that output value direct to input field:

<input type="text" value="<?php echo $str" />

Ok to answer this . I simply converted my < and the > to < and >. What was happening previously is i used to set the text <script>alert('1')</script> but before setting the text in the input text browserconverts < and > as < and the >. So hence converting them again to < and >since browser will understand that as only tags and converts them , than executing the script inside <input type="text" />

JQuery version:

$('yourInputSelectorHere').val("<script>alert('test');<\/script>")