Converting String to HTML - string to “ a href” element

Question

Hello I am having some trouble getting some HTML links to add to my HTML page. I have tried searching around but nothing has helped thus far.

My page will initially

Answer 1

Well, solution is quite obvious

Just replace

 $("#teamRoster").text(rosterListings); 

With:

$("#teamRoster").html(rosterListings);

Because if you use it as a text then it will treat it as the text and if you write html then it will treat it as a html

Answer 2

The problem is that you're using .text(), which will insert only text into the span, as seen here.

You need to use .html() if you want what is inserted to actually render as HTML.

So, try this:

$("#teamRoster").html(rosterListings);

Demo

Also note that the way you've set up your for loop causes an extra comma to be placed at the end of the list; I've fixed that here by checking whether it's the last element:

if (i !== teamRoster.length - 1) {
        rosterListings = rosterListings + " <a href='" + idList[i] + "'>" + teamRoster[i] + "</a>,";
} else {
        rosterListings = rosterListings + " and <a href='" + idList[i] + "'>" + teamRoster[i] + "</a>.";
}

Answer 3

As Just code points out, you want to use the html method, not the text method. html() is jQuery's wrapper for innerHTML, which injects the string as html.

Here is a jsFiddle showing the difference:

http://jsfiddle.net/89nxt/

$("#teamRosterHtml").html("<a href='#'>John</a> <a href='#'>Frank</a>");
$("#teamRosterText").text("<a href='#'>John</a> <a href='#'>Frank</a>");