place html in javascript strings?

Question

I need to place html in a javascript string. Specifically, I would like to add an HTML link to a div tag with javascript.

html:

<div id="mydivtag"></div>

javascript:

document.getElementById('mydivtag').innerHTML = "<li><a href=\"someLink\">Some Link</a></li> ";

Am I formatting the html link I am adding through javascript correctly?

Solution 1

Looks fine and works here. You may want to consider mixing single quotes instead of escaping the double quotes, but that's just a preference.

document.getElementById('mydivtag').innerHTML = "<li><a href='someLink'>Some Link</a></li>";

Solution 2

You can have it in one line:

document.getElementById("mydivtag").appendChild(function(li, l, t) { li.appendChild(function(a, l, t) { a.href = l; a.innerHTML = t; return a; } (document.createElement("a"), l, t)); return li; } (document.createElement("li"), "mylink", "mytext"));

Comments

[Mustafa]

it needs less jQuery