Creating unordered list in a DIV

Question

I have a DIV. I want to dynamically generate a bulleted list inside the DIV using jQuery with a items list I have with me

for (cnt = 0; cnt < someList.length; cnt++) {
  someList[cnt].FirstName + ":" + someList[cnt].LastName + "<br/>"
  // what to write here?
}

Answer 1

Keeping things as simple as possible. Using your existing javascript, You would just need to add this:

$('#myDiv').append("<ul id='newList'></ul>");
for (cnt = 0; cnt < someList.length; cnt++) {
  $("#newList").append("<li>"+someList[cnt].FirstName + ":" + someList[cnt].LastName+"</li>");
}

Since your HTML already has the DIV:

<div id="myDiv"></div>

Answer 2

Script:

$(function(){
    someList = [ {FirstName: "Joe", LastName: "Smith"} ,
                 {FirstName: "Will", LastName: "Brown"} ]

    $("#target").append("<ul id='list'></ul>");
    $.each(someList, function(n, elem) {
       $("#list").append("<li>" + elem.FirstName + " : " + elem.LastName + "</li>");
    });
});

and html:

<div id="target" />