document.createElement

[oeyvind toft]

How do I create a checkbox element ? Or any other input type ?
document.createElement('checkbox') doesnt seem to work.

Oeyvind

 

[Martin Honnen]

How do I create a checkbox element ? Or any other input type ?
document.createElement('checkbox') doesnt seem to work.

var checkbox = document.createElement('input');
checkbox.type = 'checkbox';
checkbox.name = 'checkboxName';
checkbox.defaultChecked = true/false
checkbox.value = 'Kibology';

 

[oeyvind toft]

Of course, why didnt I think of that...


Thanks Martin !!

Oeyvind

 

[Ivo]

"Martin Honnen" skrev
Some browsers have a problem assiging names to dynamically created input
elements in this way. You should define the name like so:

var checkbox = document.createElement('<input name="chName">');

--Iv

 

[Michael Winter]

[Modifying attributes after a createElement call]

Some browsers have a problem assiging names to dynamically created input
elements in this way. You should define the name like so:

var checkbox = document.createElement('<input name="chName">');

Whilst Microsoft may support that syntax, it is *not* correct. The
argument is the element name only.

I can't test with Mozilla at the moment, but Opera returns undefined[1]
with such a call, so the approach cannot be recommended at all.

Mike


[1] I'm surprised it didn't throw an exception.