Set content of HTML with Javascript

Question

In a webpage I am calling a WebService that gives me an integer value. I need to display this value in a block of text. I am currently using an HTML

Answer 1

To do it without using a JavaScript library such as jQuery, you'd do it like this:

var span = document.getElementById("myspan"),
    text = document.createTextNode(''+intValue);
span.innerHTML = ''; // clear existing
span.appendChild(text);

If you do want to use jQuery, it's just this:

$("#myspan").text(''+intValue);