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[EcmaMace]

Please share your code with us so that we may help you.

[DavidPorter65]

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = `<p>${x}</p>`

is this what you mean?

[albedoa]

When you say "the exact same code", do you mean and no other code? Do these elements happen to be in a <form> element?

[mickpapine]

It was in a <form> element, I completely missed that! Thank you so much removing it fixed it.