How to add Drop-Down list (<select>) programmatically?

Question

I want to create a function in order to programmatically add some elements on a page.

Lets say I want to add a drop-down list with four options:

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Answer 1

This code would create a select list dynamically. First I create an array with the car names. Second, I create a select element dynamically and assign it to a variable "sEle" and append it to the body of the html document. Then I use a for loop to loop through the array. Third, I dynamically create the option element and assign it to a variable "oEle". Using an if statement, I assign the attributes 'disabled' and 'selected' to the first option element [0] so that it would be selected always and is disabled. I then create a text node array "oTxt" to append the array names and then append the text node to the option element which is later appended to the select element.

var array = ['Select Car', 'Volvo', 'Saab', 'Mervedes', 'Audi'];

var sEle = document.createElement('select');
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(sEle);

for (var i = 0; i < array.length; ++i) {
  var oEle = document.createElement('option');

  if (i == 0) {
    oEle.setAttribute('disabled', 'disabled');
    oEle.setAttribute('selected', 'selected');
  } // end of if loop

  var oTxt = document.createTextNode(array[i]);
  oEle.appendChild(oTxt);

  document.getElementsByTagName('select')[0].appendChild(oEle);
} // end of for loop