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How do I create a link using javascript?

I have a string for a title and a string for a link. I'm not sure how to put the two together to create a link on a page using Javascript. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT1: Adding more detail to the question. The reason I'm trying to figure this out is because I have an RSS feed and have a list of titles ands URLs. I would like to link the titles to the URL to make the page useful.

EDIT2: I am using jQuery but am completely new to it and wasn't aware it could help in this situation.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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<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>
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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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.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Create links using JavaScript:

<script language="javascript">
<!--
document.write("<a href=\"www.example.com\">");
document.write("Your Title");
document.write("</a>");
//-->
</script>

OR

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('Your Title'.link('http://www.example.com'));
</script>

OR

<script type="text/javascript">
newlink = document.createElement('a');
newlink.innerHTML = 'Google';
newlink.setAttribute('title', 'Google');
newlink.setAttribute('href', 'http://google.com');
document.body.appendChild(newlink);
</script>
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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