jQuery’s function append() can be used to add text or html to an element. It’s very easy to use and this post shows some example code and has a working example where you can type in some text that will be appended to a div.
The following is the HTML for the example:
<div id="example">
Example div
</div>
It’s easy to append text into this div using append() as shown below. It will append the text directly before the closing </div> tag. This example would add "this text was appended" to the above div:
$('#example').append("this text was appended");
And here’s a working example. Type some text into the textarea, click the button and it will be added to the example div. The example below has a grey border around it to show where the div is. The text in the textarea can also contain html.
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The full HTML and Javascript for the above working example is as follows:
<div id="example" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 5px 0pt; padding: 5px;">Example div</div>
<form>
<div><textarea class="example-default-value" id="example-textarea" style="width: 400px; height: 50px;">Type some text in here to be appended</textarea></div>
<div><input type="button" value="Append" onclick="example_append()" /></div>
</form>
<script language="javascript">
$('.example-default-value').each(function() {
var default_value = this.value;
$(this).focus(function() {
if(this.value == default_value) {
this.value = '';
}
});
$(this).blur(function() {
if(this.value == '') {
this.value = default_value;
}
});
});
function example_append() {
$('#example').append($('#example-textarea').val());
}
</script>
The .example-default-value part is explained in an earlier post about how to change the default text value on focus with jQuery.