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Saturday, December 29, 2018

JAVA SCRIPT - Adding Text to a New Paragraph

Adding Text to a New Paragraph 



Problem

You want to create a new paragraph with text and insert it just before the second para‐ graph within a div element:

// use getElementById to access the div element
var div = document.getElementById("target");
// use getElementsByTagName and the collection index
// to access the second paragraph
var oldPara = div.getElementsByTagName("p")[1]; // zero based index
// create a text node
var txt =
document.createTextNode("The new paragraph will contain this text");
// create a new paragraph
var para = document.createElement("p");
// append the text to the paragraph, and insert the new para
para.appendChild(txt);
div.insertBefore(para, oldPara);

EXPLAIN

The text within an element is, itself, an object within the DOM. Its type is a Text node, and it is created using a specialized method, createTextNode().

The method takes one parameter: the string containing the text. shows a web page with a div element containing four paragraphs. The JavaScript creates a new paragraph from text provided by the user via a prompt.

The text could just as easily have come from a server communication or other process. The provided text is used to create a text node, which is then appended as a child node to the new paragraph. The paragraph element is inserted in the web page before the first paragraph.

Demonstrating various methods for adding content to a web page


<head>
<title>Adding Paragraphs</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="target">
 
 There is a language 'little known,'

 Lovers claim it as their own.
 <br />

 
 Its symbols smile upon the land, 

 Wrought by nature's wondrous hand;
 <br />

 
 And in their silent beauty speak,

 Of life and joy, to those who seek.
 <br />

 
 For Love Divine and sunny hours 

 In the language of the flowers.
 <br />

</div>
<script>
 // use getElementById to access the div element
 var div = document.getElementById("target");
 // get paragraph text
 var txt = prompt("Enter new paragraph text","");
// use getElementsByTagName and the collection index
 // to access the first paragraph
 var oldPara = div.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]; //zero based index
 // create a text node
 var txtNode = document.createTextNode(txt);
 // create a new paragraph
 var para = document.createElement("p");
 // append the text to the paragraph, and insert the new para
 para.appendChild(txtNode);
 div.insertBefore(para, oldPara);
</script>
</body>
</html>

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