How to add text to an existing div with jquery

Question

I want to add text to an existing div, when I click the Button with the id #add. But this is not working.

Here my code:

$(function () {
  $('#Add').click(function () {
    $('<p>Text</p>').appendTo('#Content');
  });
}); 

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
 <div id="Content">
    <button id="Add">Add</button>
 </div>

I hope you can help me.

Answer 1

You need to define the button text and have valid HTML for the button. I would also suggest using .on for the click handler of the button

$(function () {
  $('#Add').on('click', function () {
    $('<p>Text</p>').appendTo('#Content');
  });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="Content">
    <button id="Add">Add Text</button>
</div>

Also I would make sure the jquery is at the bottom of the page just before the closing </body> tag. Doing so will make it so you do not have to have the whole thing wrapped in $(function but I would still do that. Having your javascript load at the end of the page makes it so the rest of the page loads incase there is a slow down in your javascript somewhere.

Answer 2

Running example:

//If you want add the element before the actual content, use before()
$(function () {
  $('#AddBefore').click(function () {
    $('#Content').before('<p>Text before the button</p>');
  });
});

//If you want add the element after the actual content, use after()
$(function () {
  $('#AddAfter').click(function () {
    $('#Content').after('<p>Text after the button</p>');
  });
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="Content">
<button id="AddBefore">Add before</button>
<button id="AddAfter">Add after</button>
</div>

Answer 3

Your html is invalid button is not a null tag. Try

<div id="Content">
   <button id="Add">Add</button>
</div>