How to get the selected radio button’s value?

You can do something like this:

var radios = document.getElementsByName('genderS');

for (var i = 0, length = radios.length; i < length; i++) {
  if (radios[i].checked) {
    // do whatever you want with the checked radio
    alert(radios[i].value);

    // only one radio can be logically checked, don't check the rest
    break;
  }
}

<label for="gender">Gender: </label>
<input type="radio" name="genderS" value="1" checked="checked">Male</input>
<input type="radio" name="genderS" value="0">Female</input>

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Edit: Thanks HATCHA and jpsetung for your edit suggestions.