How do I create a link using javascript?

With JavaScript

  1. var a = document.createElement('a');
a.setAttribute('href',desiredLink);
a.innerHTML = desiredText;
// apend the anchor to the body
// of course you can append it almost to any other dom element
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(a);

  2. document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML += '<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>';

    or, as suggested by @travis : 

    document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML += desiredText.link(desiredLink);

  3. <script type="text/javascript">
//note that this case can be used only inside the "body" element
document.write('<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>');
</script>

With JQuery

  1. $('<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>').appendTo($('body'));

  2. $('body').append($('<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>'));

  3. var a = $('<a />');
a.attr('href',desiredLink);
a.text(desiredText);
$('body').append(a);

In all the above examples you can append the anchor to any element, not just to the 'body', and desiredLink is a variable that holds the address that your anchor element points to, and desiredText is a variable that holds the text that will be displayed in the anchor element.


<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <script>
      var a = document.createElement('a');
      var linkText = document.createTextNode("my title text");
      a.appendChild(linkText);
      a.title = "my title text";
      a.href = "http://example.com";
      document.body.appendChild(a);
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

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