Creating a DIV with special text

[Csaba2000]

What's the recommended way to add text with entities
(e.g. myText = "foo b ar") to a newly created DIV?

I might create the DIV like so:
newDiv = document.create Element("DIV");

But the following does not work:
newText = document.create TextNode(myText );
newDiv.appendCh ild(newText);

The following does work, but is it the recommended way?:
newDiv.innerHTM L = myText


Thanks,
Csaba Gabor from New York

[Shawn Milochik]

Re: Creating a DIV with special text

Csaba2000 said the following on Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:27:48 -0400:
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> What's the recommended way to add text with entities (e.g. myText =
> "foo b ar") to a newly created DIV?
>
> I might create the DIV like so:
> newDiv = document.create Element("DIV");
>
> But the following does not work:
> newText = document.create TextNode(myText );
> newDiv.appendCh ild(newText);
>
> The following does work, but is it the recommended way?:
> newDiv.innerHTM L = myText
>
>
> Thanks,
> Csaba Gabor from New York[/color]

I'm not sure about doing it in a <DIV>, but you can definitely
do it in a <SPAN> using the .innerHTML property. Of course, you
can then place a <SPAN> in your <DIV>, and change the content of the
<SPAN>.

Shawn