Dynamically add input type select with options in Javascript

Question

I have found adding inputs to a form is quite simple in Javascript, but for some reason adding the select input with options is not working. The options are appearing outsid

Answer 1

Pure Vanila JS

var choices = ["one", "two"];

function addInput(divName) {
    var newDiv = document.createElement('div');
    var selectHTML = "";
    selectHTML="<select>";
    for(i = 0; i < choices.length; i = i + 1) {
        selectHTML += "<option value='" + choices[i] + "'>" + choices[i] + "</option>";
    }
    selectHTML += "</select>";
    newDiv.innerHTML = selectHTML;
    document.getElementById(divName).appendChild(newDiv);
}

<form class="new" method="post" action="/jobs">
    <div id="dynamicInput"></div>
    <input type="button" value="Add" onclick="addInput('dynamicInput');" />
    <input type="button" value="Save" />
</form>

jQuery Version

var choices = ["one", "two"];

function addInput(divName) {
    var select = $("<select/>")
    $.each(choices, function(a, b) {
        select.append($("<option/>").attr("value", b).text(b));
    });
    $("#" + divName).append(select);
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form class="new" method="post" action="/jobs">
    <div id="dynamicInput"></div>
    <input type="button" value="Add" onclick="addInput('dynamicInput');" />
    <input type="button" value="Save" />
</form>

Answer 2

Each time you set the innerHTML property, your browser will create DOM elements of what you inserted.

When you added <select> to the innerHTML, your browser most likely added </select> to make it valid html.

Then when you retrieved it to add the options, it came back as <select></select>.

Try building the whole html string to insert in a normal variable and inserting it just once.