How can I create and style a div using JavaScript?
JavascriptJavascript Problem Overview
How can I use JavaScript to create and style (and append to the page) a div, with content? I know it's possible, but how?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
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.
Solution 2 - Javascript
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!
Solution 3 - Javascript
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
Solution 4 - Javascript
this solution uses the jquery library
$('#elementId').append("<div class='classname'>content</div>");
Solution 5 - Javascript
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);
Solution 6 - Javascript
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.
Solution 7 - Javascript
This will be inside a function or script tag with custom CSS with classname as Custom
var board = document.createElement('div');
board.className = "Custom";
board.innerHTML = "your data";
console.log(count);
document.getElementById('notification').appendChild(board);
Solution 8 - Javascript
create div with id name
var divCreator=function (id){
newElement=document.createElement("div");
newNode=document.body.appendChild(newElement);
newNode.setAttribute("id",id);
}
add text to div
var textAdder = function(id, text) {
target = document.getElementById(id)
target.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
}
test code
divCreator("div1");
textAdder("div1", "this is paragraph 1");
output
this is paragraph 1
Solution 9 - Javascript
You can create like this
board.style.cssText = "position:fixed;height:100px;width:100px;background:#ddd;"
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(board);
Complete Runnable Snippet:
var board;
board= document.createElement("div");
board.id = "mainBoard";
board.style.cssText = "position:fixed;height:100px;width:100px;background:#ddd;"
document.getElementById("main").appendChild(board);
<body>
<div id="main"></div>
</body>
Solution 10 - Javascript
Here's a small example that uses some nifty reusable DOM utility functions:
// DOM utility functions:
const
ELNew = (tag, prop) => Object.assign(document.createElement(tag), prop),
ELS = (sel, par) => (par ?? document).querySelectorAll(sel),
EL = (sel, par) => (par ?? document).querySelector(sel);
// Task:
const EL_new = ELNew("div", {
className: "item",
textContent: "Hello, World!",
onclick() {
console.log(this.textContent);
},
style: `
font-size: 2em;
color: brown;
background: gold;
`
});
// Append it
EL("body").append(EL_new);
Additionally, you can also style your element using Object.assign() like:
// Add additional styles later:
Object.assign(EL_new.style, {
color: "red",
background: "yellow",
fontSize: "3rem",
});
Solution 11 - Javascript
You can just use the method below:
document.write()
It is very simple, in the doc below I explain
document.write("<div class='div'>Some content inside the div (It is styled!)</div>")
.div {
background-color: red;
padding: 5px;
color: #fff;
font-family: Arial;
cursor: pointer;
}
.div:hover {
background-color: blue;
padding: 10px;
}
.div:hover:before {
content: 'Hover! ';
}
.div:active {
background-color: green;
padding: 15px;
}
.div:active:after {
content: ' Active! or clicked...';
}
<p>Below or above well show the div</p>
<p>Try pointing hover it and clicking on it. Those are tha styles aplayed. The text and background color changes.</p>