<script>
var cool = "cool";
var pass = document.getElementById('name');
pass.innerHTML = cool;
</script>
<small id="name"></small>
To be honest I am just not searching correctly; this seems very basic. I have been using jquery for everything, but never actually used much JS by itself, so I am wondering how one would append a value to an element using just JS.
Your code should work, but you need to add it after the element is defined, otherwise document.getElementById('name') will return null as name element doesn't exist yet.
<small id="name"></small>
<script>
var cool = "cool";
var pass = document.getElementById('name');
pass.innerHTML = cool;
</script>
Your code should work... you have to define the JS after
<small id="name"></small>
If not there might be a problem which try to search DOM element before it loads
Basically you executing the javascript before creating the html
<small id="name"></small>
so the javascript does not work on the non-existent html .
