Question

I wrote a simple javascript function that creates a DOM object (in this case a tag ) and I call it in the of my html page and it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas?

function create_link() {
    var link = document.createElement("a");
    link.setAttribute('href', 'the_link.html');
    link.setAttribute('name', 'click on link');
    document.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].appendChild(link);
}

Answer 1

The createElement and setAttribute calls are fine, are you sure document.childNodes[0].childNodes[1] is defined?

To test, you can do: document.body.appendChild(link);, which should work.