replacement for document.write

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I have a div and I want the date in there. The following code includes document.write. So the text will appear in a plain document. How can I avoid this and let the text appear in the div? The div has the id "appear".

<script type="text/javascript">

var date=new Date();
var month=new Array(12);
month[0]="January";
month[1]="February";
month[2]="March";
month[3]="April";
month[4]="May";
month[5]="June";
month[6]="July";
month[7]="August";
month[8]="September";
month[9]="October";
month[10]="November";
month[11]="December";

document.write(month[day.getMonth()]);

</script>

Posted 11-Mar-12 9:38am

Chi Ller

Updated 11-Mar-12 9:51am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-11T11:11:00

Solution 1

You can do it using the property innerHTML which all elements have, for example.

JavaScript

myDiv = document.GetElementById("myDivId");
myDiv.innerHTML = month[day.getMonth()]; // you can add any HTML markup here

You need to mark the target div with matching id attribute:

HTML

<div id="myDivId"></id>

At first, you can put some content inside this div or leave it empty. If would be filled in by the fragment of JavaScript code shown above.

—SA

Posted 11-Mar-12 11:11am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 11-Mar-12 11:12am

v2

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Chi Ller 11-Mar-12 17:29pm

I didn´t know that innerHTML can replace a document.write. So thank you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-12 18:21pm

You are very welcome.

You know now.
It's not replacement of write, it's replacement of inner HTML code of any element.

I would also recommend to use jQuery, it makes JavaScript programming way more compact, better for portability, maintenance, and more.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-12 18:22pm

And innerHTML is much better, because otherwise you would re-write the whole document, this is not even always feasible.
--SA

Chi Ller 12-Mar-12 12:33pm

That was the big problem

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Mar-12 13:16pm

Well, good luck to get some more... :-)
Best wishes,
--SA