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The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document. The <div> tag is used as a container for HTML elements - which is then styled with CSS or manipulated with JavaScript. The <div> tag is easily styled by using the class or id attribute. Any sort of content can be put inside the <div> tag!
There are two other ways to set style using JavaScript. The first is to use the setAttribute() method. The second is by adding a class using the add() method of the classList property. The class you add can then be handled using external CSS styling.
Using JavaScript In vanilla JavaScript, you can use the native createElement() method to create an HTML <div> element and the appendChild() method to append the <div> element to another container.
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.
Depends on how you're doing it. Pure javascript:
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = "my <b>new</b> skill - <large>DOM maniuplation!</large>";
// set style
div.style.color = 'red';
// better to use CSS though - just set class
div.setAttribute('class', 'myclass'); // and make sure myclass has some styles in css
document.body.appendChild(div);
Doing the same using jquery is embarrassingly easy:
$('body')
.append('my DOM manupulation skills dont seem like a big deal when using jquery')
.css('color', 'red').addClass('myclass');
Cheers!
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 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.
Another thing I like to do is creating an object and then looping thru the object and setting the styles like that because it can be tedious writing every single style one by one.
var bookStyles = {
color: "red",
backgroundColor: "blue",
height: "300px",
width: "200px"
};
let div = document.createElement("div");
for (let style in bookStyles) {
div.style[style] = bookStyles[style];
}
body.appendChild(div);
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