How to add anything in <head> through jquery/javascript?
JavascriptJqueryCssXhtmlJavascript Problem Overview
I'm working with a CMS, which prevents editing HTML source for <head> element.
For example I want to add the following above the <title> tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
You can select it and add to it as normal:
$('head').append('<link />');
Solution 2 - Javascript
JavaScript:
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild( ... );
Make DOM element like so:
const link = document.createElement('link');
link.href = 'href';
link.rel = 'rel';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
Solution 3 - Javascript
jQuery
$('head').append( ... );
JavaScript:
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild( ... );
Solution 4 - Javascript
You can use innerHTML to just concat the extra field string;
document.head.innerHTML = document.head.innerHTML + '<link rel="stylesheet>...'
However, you can't guarantee that the extra things you add to the head will be recognised by the browser after the first load, and it's possible you will get a FOUC (flash of unstyled content) as the extra stylesheets are loaded.
I haven't looked at the API in years, but you could also use document.write, which is what was designed for this sort of action. However, this would require you to block the page from rendering until your initial AJAX request has completed.
Solution 5 - Javascript
Create a temporary element (e. g. DIV), assign your HTML code to its innerHTML property, and then append its child nodes to the HEAD element one by one. For example, like this:
var temp = document.createElement('div');
temp.innerHTML = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="example.css" />'
+ '<script src="foobar.js"><\/script> ';
var head = document.head;
while (temp.firstChild) {
head.appendChild(temp.firstChild);
}
Compared with rewriting entire HEAD contents via its innerHTML, this wouldn’t affect existing child elements of the HEAD element in any way.
Note that scripts inserted this way are apparently not executed automatically, while styles are applied successfully. So if you need scripts to be executed, you should load JS files using Ajax and then execute their contents using eval().
Solution 6 - Javascript
In the latest browsers (IE9+) you can also use document.head:
Example:
var favicon = document.createElement('link');
favicon.id = 'myFavicon';
favicon.rel = 'shortcut icon';
favicon.href = 'http://www.test.com/my-favicon.ico';
document.head.appendChild(favicon);
Solution 7 - Javascript
Try a javascript pure:
Library JS:
appendHtml = function(element, html) {
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = html;
while (div.children.length > 0) {
element.appendChild(div.children[0]);
}
}
Type:
appendHtml(document.head, '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://example.com/example.css"/>');
or jQuery:
$('head').append($('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />').attr('href', 'http://example.com/example.css'));
Solution 8 - Javascript
With jquery you have other option:
$('head').html($('head').html() + '...');
anyway it is working. JavaScript option others said, thats correct too.