Hi All, Thanks for the great responses, jsbin is great. I've figured out the problem and things seem to be working smoothly at the moment.
If I may, let me ask another related question: Ultimately, this script is writing a web widget to a page. Is there an easier way to be writing large amounts of code to a page through javascript/jQuery without foregoing the DOM or is this pretty much my best option? Thanks again, Nicky On Jan 31, 1:47 pm, Stephan Veigl <stephan.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nicky, > > where do the variables elm, and serial come from? > > Your posted code snipped looks ok, and it's working fine if you > populate the elm and serial with meaningful values. (see > example:http://jsbin.com/oxehe/edit) > > I guess there is a problem with elm. Are you sure it holds exactly 1 > DOM element? > Is serial a unique ID? > > by(e) > Stephan > > 2009/1/31 Nicky <nha...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Ah, very sorry about that mistype, but that is in fact what I am doing > > (just replaced my code wrong when I changed what I have to 'someID') > > > Here's what I have, exactly: > > > $('<div/>') > > .attr('id', 'ntww-'+serial) > > .insertBefore(elm); > > $('<p/>') > > .appendTo('#ntww-'+serial); > > > Sorry about that and thanks for the reply! > > > -Nicky > > > On Jan 31, 9:28 am, Stephan Veigl <stephan.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the selector for an id is #, sou you should use "#someID" instead of > >> "someID" for the appendTo() function. > > >> by(e) > >> Stephan > > >> 2009/1/31 Nicky <nha...@gmail.com>: > > >> > Hi All, > > >> > I'm fairly new to jQuery so I apologize if I'm missing something > >> > straightforward but doing this: > > >> > $('<div/>') > >> > .attr('id', 'someID') > >> > .insertBefore(elm); > >> > $('<p/>') > >> > .appendTo('someID'); > > >> > Seems to give me errors. If I change "appendTo('someID')" to a > >> > different element's ID, it works fine, so I get the feeling that it > >> > can't append to the just-created div. Is this not the case? What > >> > should I do to move forward? > > >> > Thanks for the help!
