HTML DOM div object


The HTML DOM div object is associated with the HTML <div> element. Div is a general purpose block level element that allows us to group elements together to either apply style to them or to manipulate a group of HTML elements under a single tag name or id.

Properties

Following is the property for div object −

PropertyDescription
AlignTo set or return the align attribute value of the <div> element. This property is not supported in HTML5 use css instead for aligning.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for −

Creating a div object −

var p = document.createElement("DIV");

Example

Let us look at an example for the HTML DOM div object −

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Div object example</h2>
<p>click on the CREATE button to create a div element with some text in it.</p>
<button onclick="createDiv()">CREATE</button>
<script>
   function createDiv() {
      var d = document.createElement("DIV");
      var txt = document.createTextNode("Sample Div element");
      d.setAttribute("style", "margin:10px;width:200px;background-color: lightgreen;border:2px solid blue");
      d.appendChild(txt);
      document.body.appendChild(d);
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

On clicking the CREATE button −

In the above example −

We have first created a button CREATE that will execute the createDiv() method when clicked by the user −

<button onclick="createDiv()">CREATE</button>

The createDiv() function creates a <div> element and assigns it to the variable d. It then creates a text node and assigns it to the variable txt. We then set the <div> element attributes using the setAttribute() method. The text node is then appended to the <div> element using the appendChild() method. The <div> element along with the text node is then appended as the document body child −

function createDiv() {
   var d = document.createElement("DIV");
   var txt = document.createTextNode("Sample Div element");
   d.setAttribute("style", "margin:10px;width:200px;background-color: lightgreen;border:2px solid blue");
   d.appendChild(txt);
   document.body.appendChild(d);
}

Updated on: 20-Feb-2021

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