Question

I am a newbie to html/css/javascript and code like this really scares me:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#InfoWindows

Is assigning html to javascript variable a good practice? or I hope there is a substitute.

Answer 1

There is nothing wrong with it. After all, it is really no different then typing the same thing outside of the javascript block.

I do however find, that the formatting and the likes can be annoying. On use JQuery a fair bit, and depending on what I might be doing I might use a .html() or .clone() method to create html form another element.

JQuery also has a template plugin which when used does allow for you to get slightly better formatting, and you can also specify dynamic values. Which is great for creating dynamic tables that update with Ajax for example.

Another side note, the fact that example you gave was on a Google site, would usually be enough to convince me it is OK to do 😉