Question

Need a small hand here im trying to combine two functions to create a program that takes text from a text area and inserts it into a div (managed that with the first code) the second peace of code im trying to create a div each time, what id like to do is everytime some one writes in the textarea and “posts” the message it will create a new div (rather than the first code which overwrites if anything new is posted).

$(function () {
    $('button').click(function () {
        var x = $('textarea').val();
        $('#test').html(x);
        return false;
    });
});

second:

function creatediv(id, html, width, height, left, top) {

       var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
       newdiv.setAttribute('id', id);

       if (width) {
           newdiv.style.width = 300;
       }

       if (height) {
           newdiv.style.height = 300;
       }

       if ((left || top) || (left && top)) {
           newdiv.style.position = "absolute";

           if (left) {
               newdiv.style.left = left;
           }

           if (top) {
               newdiv.style.top = top;
           }
       }

       newdiv.style.background = "#00C";
       newdiv.style.border = "4px solid #000";

       if (html) {
           newdiv.innerHTML = html;
       } else {
           newdiv.innerHTML = "nothing";
       }

       document.body.appendChild(newdiv);

    } 

Being careful tho as I have divs set by css for my master page in asp, dont want to overwrite them. Its important I dont add them to the same div aswell as I will be adding more code later that will contain a button inside the created div to add comments to that div only.

Thanks to any and all that can help!

Answer 1

Yeah, don’t bother re-inventing the wheel. Get a library like jQuery and learn it. Faster, easier.

http://jquery.com/

But since jquery is one of your tags, I take it that you are using it?

In that case, just use append:

http://api.jquery.com/append/

$(function () {
    $('button').click(function () {
        var x = $('textarea').val();
        $('#test').append(x);
        return false;
    });
});