Question

I am trying to make a call to api which returns json object

 { "category" : [ { "id" : 5,
    "name" : "Bollywood"
  },
  { "id" : 484,
    "name" : "International"
  },
  { "id" : 15,
    "name" : "Devotional"
  }
 ]}

1. How do I make a call from within my html page javascript.

Please note: I cannot use jquery, simple javascript is needed..

Answer 1

1. How do I make a call from within my html page javascript… Um… what API is this? If it’s javascript… why don’t you just call the function…

2. Why don’t you use javascript document.createElement("select") and getAttribute() and setAttribute()
   https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.createElement http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_element_getattribute.asp

Alternatively you could just create the code with javascript as a string and set .innerHTML of some element (like a div)

1. Attach an event handler with aforementioned setAttribute('onchange', "some_function_name") or something

I haven’t give you a very detailed response because you haven’t given a very good quesiton