How to add Drop-Down list (<select>) programmatically?

Question

I want to create a function in order to programmatically add some elements on a page.

Lets say I want to add a drop-down list with four options:

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Answer 1

This code would create a select list dynamically. First I create an array with the car names. Second, I create a select element dynamically and assign it to a variable "sEle" and append it to the body of the html document. Then I use a for loop to loop through the array. Third, I dynamically create the option element and assign it to a variable "oEle". Using an if statement, I assign the attributes 'disabled' and 'selected' to the first option element [0] so that it would be selected always and is disabled. I then create a text node array "oTxt" to append the array names and then append the text node to the option element which is later appended to the select element.

var array = ['Select Car', 'Volvo', 'Saab', 'Mervedes', 'Audi'];

var sEle = document.createElement('select');
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(sEle);

for (var i = 0; i < array.length; ++i) {
  var oEle = document.createElement('option');

  if (i == 0) {
    oEle.setAttribute('disabled', 'disabled');
    oEle.setAttribute('selected', 'selected');
  } // end of if loop

  var oTxt = document.createTextNode(array[i]);
  oEle.appendChild(oTxt);

  document.getElementsByTagName('select')[0].appendChild(oEle);
} // end of for loop

Answer 2

Here's an ES6 version of the answer provided by 7stud.

const sel = document.createElement('select');
sel.name = 'drop1';
sel.id = 'Select1';

const cars = [
  "Volvo",
  "Saab",
  "Mercedes",
  "Audi",
];

const options = cars.map(car => {
  const value = car.toLowerCase();
  return `<option value="${value}">${car}</option>`;
});

sel.innerHTML = options;

window.onload = () => document.body.appendChild(sel);

Answer 3

it's very simple yet tricky but here is what you wanted, hope it's helpful : this function generates a select list from 1990 to 2018 i think this example can help ya, if you want to add any other value just change value of x and y ;)

function dropDown(){
    var start = 1990;
    var today = 2019;
    document.write("<select>");
    for (var i = start ; i <= today; i++)
    document.write("<option>" + i + "</option>");
}
document.write("</select>");

dropDown();