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Receive user text input in a form input. Use it in the variable firstName

Example: http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/go-student/examples/user-txt-input.html

Code:
<source lang="html4strict">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="utf-8">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<style>

form{width: 50%;}
input{padding: 6px; width:50%; border: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 1em; color: #000;}
input:focus{border: 2px solid yellow; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; font-weight: bold;}
input[type="submit"]{font-weight: bold; width: auto; }
input[type="submit"]:focus{ color: yellow; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);}
#instruction{display: none; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="question">Tell me you name...</h1>
<form id="greeting">
<input name="firstName" id="firstName" required="" placeholder="Your first name" type="text"><br>
<input value="Send" type="submit">
</form>
<h2 id="instruction">Now <span class="userName"></span>, I want you to walk 10 steps away from where you are now.</h2>

<script>
var firstName; // variable that will store user name
$("form#greeting").submit(function(event){
console.log( $('#firstName').val() );
firstName = $('#firstName').val();

event.preventDefault();
$("#firstName").val(''); //clean input#firstName
$('form, #question').css('display', 'none'); //hide form
$('#instruction').css('display', 'block'); //show instruction
$('span.userName').text(firstName); //Add name to span.userName

})

</script>
</body></html>
</source>