Writing Content Under Script Tags

Question

I am trying to create script tags dynamically under my page using javascript. So far I am able to create it, able to set its type and src. Now my question is, is there any way that instead of defining the src to a different page can I assign its content on the same page? Let me write my code to make it make more sense:

var script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
script.src = 'custom.js';

Now is there any way I can assign it the content as well by doing something like this:

script.content = 'document.write("stackoverflow")';
script.html = 'document.write("stackoverflow")';

I am not sure whether they exist or not, but just guessing if i can do something like this.

Answer 1

You can do:

var script_tag = document.createElement('script');
script_tag.type = 'text/javascript';
script_tag.text = 'alert("hello world")';
document.body.appendChild(script_tag);

In practice, whether you set the type property or not is likely irrelevant, but it gives one a warm inner glow.