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at February 27, 2009 14:59 by Shurik76
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Add/Remove child: Javascript</title>
<script>
function addEvent() {
  var ni = document.getElementById('myDiv');
  var numi = document.getElementById('theValue');
  var num = (document.getElementById("theValue").value -1)+ 2;
  numi.value = num;
  var divIdName = "my"+num+"Div";
  var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
  newdiv.setAttribute("id",divIdName);
  newdiv.innerHTML = "Element Number " + num + " has been added! <a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"removeElement(\'"+divIdName+"\')\">Remove the element &quot;"+divIdName+"&quot;</a>";
  ni.appendChild(newdiv);
}

function removeElement(divNum) {
  var d = document.getElementById('myDiv');
  var olddiv = document.getElementById(divNum);
  d.removeChild(olddiv);
}
</script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
  .updated {
    background: #FFE2AF;
    color: #000;
    border: 2px solid #ccc;
    padding: 1em;
  }
</style>
</head>

<body>
  <div class="updated">
    <strong>UPDATE</strong>: There is a newer "up-to-date" version of this tutorial that can be found here: 
    <a href="http://www.dustindiaz.com/add-remove-elements-reprise/">Add and Remove Elements with JavaScript (reprise)</a>.
  </div>

	<input type="hidden" value="0" id="theValue" />
	<p><a href="javascript:;" onclick="addEvent();">Add Some Elements</a></p>
	<div id="myDiv"> </div>
</body>
</html>
Initial URL 
http://www.dustindiaz.com/add-and-remove-html-elements-dynamically-with-javascript/
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JavaScript