Javascript Novice Question

Must be a correct way

// this clearly is not the correct way of doing this, what must I be doing
pos1 = document.getElementById('pos1').value;
pos2 = document.getElementById('pos2').value;
pos3 = document.getElementById('pos3').value;
pos4 = document.getElementById('pos4').value;
pos5 = document.getElementById('pos5').value;
pos6 = document.getElementById('pos6').value;
pos7 = document.getElementById('pos7').value;
pos8 = document.getElementById('pos8').value;
pos9 = document.getElementById('pos9').value;
var elements=[pos1,pos2,pos3,pos4,pos5,pos6,pos7,pos8,pos9];