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HTML

<form id="theform">
  <input type="text" id="searchTerm" />
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" id="submitButton" />
</form>

JavaScript

document.getElementById('theform').onsubmit = function() { 
	console.log(document.getElementById('searchTerm').value);
  return false;
};