Is it possible to generate html from JavaScript? For example, I have this:
<script type="text/javascript">
for (i=0; i<=length; i++)
{
//I want to display a <p> tag containing the value of i
}
</script>
So the generated html should look something like this if length = 5:
<p>0</p>
<p>1</p>
<p>2</p>
<p>3</p>
<p>4</p>
<p>5</p>
Is it possible to do this?
Very possible. You would insert the elements into the DOM:
var NewP;
var Text;
for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
NewP = document.createElement("p"); // Create a p element
Text = document.createTextNode(i + ""); // Create text to go inside with string value of i
NewP.appendChild(Text); // Add text to p element
document.body.appendChild(NewP); // Append newly-created p element to body element in DOM tree
}
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
greeting = "<H1>Hi Web surfers!</H1>"
welcome = "<P>Welcome to <CITE>stackoverflow.com</CITE>.</P>"
// -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write(greeting)
document.write(welcome)
// -->
</SCRIPT>
Sure. Your code would look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var total = 5;
for (i=0; i <= total; i++)
{
document.write('<p>' + i + '</p>');
}
</script>
Yes. It's possible. For example:
<script type="text/javascript">
var html = "";
for (i=0; i<=6; i++) {
html += "<p>" + i + "</p>";
}
document.write(html);
</script>
You can put
document.write('<p>' + i + '</p>'); in your loop
Yes, it is possible:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaScript/HTML/GeneratingHTMLOntheFly.htm
but there are some nice plugins that facilitate the process better, specially if you intend to do more of this:
You can make a <div id="div"></div>in your html and simply in the function:
$("#div").html('<p>'+i+'</p>');
