jQuery create element containing child element

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Creating a div element in jQuery does a good job on describing how to create and insert an element, however, I wish to create an element with a child element such as <li><a href="abc.html">click</a></li>. The href and text is susceptible to XSS, so I need take steps. I could create the <a> element like:

var href='abc.html',text='click';
jQuery('<a/>', {
    href: href,
    text: text
}).appendTo('#mySelector');

How do I modify this to include the </li> element?

LorDex · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 14:25:51Z

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wrap it up:

$(document).ready(function() {
  var href='abc.html',text='click';

jQuery('<a/>', {
    href: href,
    text: text
}).wrap("<li>").parent().appendTo('#mySelector');


})

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Eyqco

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 14:25

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LiamWilson94 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 14:23:15Z

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Firstly you could append the <li> tag to the element with the id mySelector.

$('<li>').appendTo('#mySelector');

Then you append your <a> tag to the li element.

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 14:23

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user1032531 Over a year ago

Thanks LiamWilson. Thought there might be a more direct way to do so.

LorDex Over a year ago

@user1032531 there is. check my answer ;)

LiamWilson94 Over a year ago

Alternatively, you could wrap the li element around the <a> tag.

Mathieu Labrie Parent · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10 14:32:51Z

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Personnaly, i like to do it in html directly :

var html = "";
html += "<li>";
html += "<a href='www.google.com' >click me</a>";
html += "</li>";

$("myselector").append(html);

answered Oct 10, 2014 at 14:32

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user1032531 Over a year ago

As I indicated, the text ckick me is user provided. This could result in XSS.

Ed Swangren Over a year ago

..........why tho?`

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