I want to know how to create and append HTML using jQuery. Obviously it's tedious to write 20-25 or even more line of codes like this:
"<h1>"+response.name+"</h1>" +
"<p>"+response.description+"</p>" + and so on
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1Sounds like you just need a loop. Without seeing any more useful parts of your logic, such as the contents of the data structure you're manually writing 25 times, or how you're appending this HTML, we can't really offer you any useful guidance.Rory McCrossan– Rory McCrossan2018-07-26 09:03:33 +00:00Commented Jul 26, 2018 at 9:03
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1If the code is exactly the same for those 20-25 lines, then you can hardcode that HTML code in your script and then apply a loop to append that HTML in the parent div. If the code is a bit different but the DOM structure is same, then you can generate the HTML first and then use the loop to append the data in the HTML.Code_Ninja– Code_Ninja2018-07-26 09:20:45 +00:00Commented Jul 26, 2018 at 9:20
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If you have a (more or less) fixed markup structure and repeatedly want to fill that with variable values, you might consider using templates.
There are tons of templating-engines for JS, but too keep things simple here is an example using mustache.js:
<script src="mustache.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script id="template" type="x-tmpl-mustache">
<h1>{{name}}</h1>
<p>{{description}}</p>
{{#optionalVar1}}
<p>{{#optionalVar1}}</p>
{{/optionalVar1}}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var template = document.querySelector('#template').innerHTML;
/* "response" should be an object containing named members as
* in the template above. "{{name}}" refers to "response.name" */
var rendered = Mustache.render(template, response);
document.querySelector('#output').innerHTML = rendered;
</script>
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Here is an example to create and append html in jQuery
$('body').append($('h1').text(response.name))
.append($('p').text(response.description))
... append as much as you want
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feeela
Which will only make the code from the question more verbose.
Rory McCrossan
It only append a single instance too. The OP explicitly states they are doing this 20-25 times.