I am currently working on an assignment where we have to take a user's input and compare their value for either movie title or cast member name and the page will render movies that matches with either input.

This code I wrote and checked with the console logs. It is taking them as it should and changes whenever the input values change.

const userForm = document.getElementById("Search");
userForm.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
  e.preventDefault();
  let inputTitle = document.getElementById("titleInput").value;
  console.log(inputTitle)
  let inputActor = document.getElementById("actorInput").value;
  console.log(inputActor)
});

I wanted to know how would I be grabbing the values and turning them into a string so I can compare the inputs to the movie list. I console logged them and it works but I am also very doubtful of myself as well lol.