Question

I understand JQuery in the basic sense but am definitely new to it, and suspect this is very easy.

I’ve got my image src and id in a JSON response (converted to an object), and therefore the correct values in responseObject.imgurl and responseObject.imgid, and now I’d like to create an image with it and append it to a div (lets call it <div id="imagediv">. I’m a bit stuck on dynamically building the <img src="dynamic" id="dynamic"> – most of the examples I’ve seen involve replacing the src on an existing image, but I don’t have an existing image.

Answer 1

In jQuery, a new element can be created by passing a HTML string to the constructor, as shown below:

var img = $('<img id="dynamic">'); //Equivalent: $(document.createElement('img'))
img.attr('src', responseObject.imgurl);
img.appendTo('#imagediv');