How can I use JavaScript to create and style (and append to the page) a div, with content? I know it\'s possible, but how?
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.style.width = "100px";
div.style.height = "100px";
div.style.background = "red";
div.style.color = "white";
div.innerHTML = "Hello";
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(div);
<body>
<div id="main"></div>
</body>
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.style.width = "100px";
div.style.height = "100px";
div.style.background = "red";
div.style.color = "white";
div.innerHTML = "Hello";
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(div);
OR
document.body.appendChild(div);
Use parent reference instead of document.body
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You can create like this
board.style.cssText = "position:fixed;height:100px;width:100px;background:#ffffd;"
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(board);
Complete Runnable Snippet:
var board;
board= document.createElement("div");
board.id = "mainBoard";
board.style.cssText = "position:fixed;height:100px;width:100px;background:#ffffd;"
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(board);
<body>
<div id="main"></div>
</body>
this solution uses the jquery library
$('#elementId').append("<div class='classname'>content</div>");
Here's one solution that I'd use:
var div = '<div id="yourId" class="yourClass" yourAttribute="yourAttributeValue">blah</div>';
If you wanted the attribute and/or attribute values to be based on variables:
var id = "hello";
var classAttr = "class";
var div = '<div id='+id+' '+classAttr+'="world" >Blah</div>';
Then, to append to the body:
document.getElementsByTagName("body").innerHTML = div;
Easy as pie.
While other answers here work, I notice you asked for a div with content. So here's my version with extra content. JSFiddle link at the bottom.
JavaScript (with comments):
// Creating a div element
var divElement = document.createElement("Div");
divElement.id = "divID";
// Styling it
divElement.style.textAlign = "center";
divElement.style.fontWeight = "bold";
divElement.style.fontSize = "smaller";
divElement.style.paddingTop = "15px";
// Adding a paragraph to it
var paragraph = document.createElement("P");
var text = document.createTextNode("Another paragraph, yay! This one will be styled different from the rest since we styled the DIV we specifically created.");
paragraph.appendChild(text);
divElement.appendChild(paragraph);
// Adding a button, cause why not!
var button = document.createElement("Button");
var textForButton = document.createTextNode("Release the alert");
button.appendChild(textForButton);
button.addEventListener("click", function(){
alert("Hi!");
});
divElement.appendChild(button);
// Appending the div element to body
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(divElement);
HTML:
<body>
<h1>Title</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph. Well, kind of.</p>
</body>
CSS:
h1 { color: #333333; font-family: 'Bitter', serif; font-size: 50px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 54px; margin: 0 0 54px; }
p { color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0 0 28px; }
Note: CSS lines borrowed from Ratal Tomal
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/Rani_Kheir/erL7aowz/
This will be inside a function or script tag with custom CSS with classname as Custom
var board = document.createElement('div');
board.className = "Custom";
board.innerHTML = "your data";
console.log(count);
document.getElementById('notification').appendChild(board);