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jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook
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jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook

by Brad Dayley
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 54m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Creating HTML Elements Using jQuery

var newP = $('<p id="newp" class="nice">new P</p>'); var img = $("<img></img>"); img.attr("src", "images/newImg.jpg"); var opt = $("<option></option>"); opt.html("Option 1"); opt.val(1); opt.attr("selected",true):

An extremely important aspect of jQuery is the ability to create HTML elements from an HTML string. To create an HTML object from a string, simply call jQuery(htmlString) or $(htmlString). The string can include attribute settings and content. For example:

var newP = $('<p id="newp" class="nice">new Paragraph</p>');

Notice that I used single quotes to define the htmlString. That allowed me to put in the id="newp" and class="nice" ...

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