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Mohammad Usman
Mohammad Usman

Reputation: 1141

How to create <input type=“text”/> dynamically

I want to create an input type text in my web form dynamically. More specifically, I have a textfield where the user enters the number of desired text fields; I want the text fields to be generated dynamically in the same form.

How do I do that?

Upvotes: 114

Views: 320127

Answers (13)

reza_qsr
reza_qsr

Reputation: 61

        var input = document.createElement("input");

        input.setAttribute("type", "text");

        input.setAttribute("name", "name");

        input.setAttribute("value", 'value');

        document.getElementById("divID").appendChild(input);

Upvotes: 2

topsoftwarepro
topsoftwarepro

Reputation: 822

Try this:

function generateInputs(form, input) {
  x = input.value;
  for (y = 0; x > y; y++) {
    var element = document.createElement('input');
    element.type = "text";
    element.placeholder = "New Input";
    form.appendChild(element);
  }
}
input {
  padding: 10px;
  margin: 10px;
}
<div id="input-form">
  <input type="number" placeholder="Desired number of inputs..." onchange="generateInputs(document.getElementById('input-form'), this)" required><br>
</div>

The code above, has a form with an input which accepts a number in it:

<form id="input-form">
  <input type="number" placeholder="Desired number of inputs..." onchange="generateInputs(document.getElementById('input-form'), this)"><br>
</form>

The input runs a function onchange, meaning that when the user has entered a number and clicked submit, it run a function. The user is required to fill out the input with a value before submitting. This value must be numerical. Once submitted the parent form and the input are passed to the function:

...
generateInputs(document.getElementById('input-form'), this)
...

The generate then loops according to the given value inside the input:

...
x = input.value;
for (y=0; x>y; y++) {
...

Then it generates an input inside the form, on each loop:

...
var element = document.createElement('input');
element.type = "text";
element.placeholder = "New Input";
form.appendChild(element);
...

I have also added in a few CSS stylings to make the inputs look nice, and some placeholders as well. To read more about creating elements createElement():

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_document_createelement.asp

To read more about for loops:

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_loop_for.asp

Upvotes: 2

Agnel Vishal
Agnel Vishal

Reputation: 572

<button id="add" onclick="add()">Add Element</button>

<div id="hostI"></div>

<template id="templateInput">
    <input type="text">
</template>

<script>
    function add() {

        // Using Template, element is created
        var templateInput = document.querySelector('#templateInput');
        var clone = document.importNode(templateInput.content, true);

        // The Element is added to document
        var hostI = document.querySelector('#hostI');
        hostI.appendChild(clone);
    }

</script>

HTML Templates are now the recommended standards to generate dynamic content.

Upvotes: 1

Mohamed Attya
Mohamed Attya

Reputation: 11

  • Query and get the container DOM element

  • Create new element

  • Put new element to document Tree

//Query some Dib region you Created
let container=document.querySelector("#CalculationInfo .row .t-Form-itemWrapper");
let input = document.createElement("input");

//create new Element  for apex
input.setAttribute("type","text");
input.setAttribute("size","30");
containter.appendChild(input); // put it into the DOM

Upvotes: 0

Greedo
Greedo

Reputation: 3549

The core idea of the solution is:

  • create a new input element
  • Add the type text
  • append the element to the DOM

This can be done via this simple script:

var input = document.createElement('input');
input.setAttribute('type', 'text');
document.getElementById('parent').appendChild(input);

Now the question is, how to render this process dynamic. As stated in the question, there is another input where the user insert the number of input to generate. This can be done as follows:

function renderInputs(el){
  var n = el.value && parseInt(el.value, 10);
  if(isNaN(n)){
    return;
  }
  
  var input;
  var parent = document.getElementById("parent");
  
  cleanDiv(parent);
  for(var i=0; i<n; i++){
    input = document.createElement('input');
    input.setAttribute('type', 'text');
    parent.appendChild(input);
  }
}

function cleanDiv(div){
  div.innerHTML = '';
}
Insert number of input to generate: </br>
<input type="text" onchange="renderInputs(this)"/>

<div id="parent">
Generated inputs:
</div>

but usually adding just an input is not really usefull, it would be better to add a name to the input, so that it can be easily sent as a form. This snippet add also a name:

function renderInputs(el){
  var n = el.value;
  var input, label;
  var parent = document.getElementById("parent");
  cleanDiv(parent);
  
  el.value.split(',').forEach(function(name){
    input = document.createElement('input');
    input.setAttribute('type', 'text');
    input.setAttribute('name', name);
    label = document.createElement('label');
    label.setAttribute('for', name);
    label.innerText = name;
    parent.appendChild(label);
    parent.appendChild(input);
    parent.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
  });
}

function cleanDiv(div){
  div.innerHTML = '';
}
Insert the names, separated by comma, of the inputs to generate: </br>
<input type="text" onchange="renderInputs(this)"/>
<br>
Generated inputs: </br>
<div id="parent">

</div>

Upvotes: 4

Ajithraj
Ajithraj

Reputation: 528

To create number of input fields given by the user

  1. Get the number of text fields from the user and assign it to a variable.

    var no = document.getElementById("idname").value

  1. To create input fields, use createElement method and specify element name i.e. "input" as parameter like below and assign it to a variable.

    var textfield = document.createElement("input");

  1. Then assign necessary attributes to the variable.

    textfield.type = "text";

    textfield.value = "";

  1. At last append variable to the form element using appendChild method. so that the input element will be created in the form element itself.

    document.getElementById('form').appendChild(textfield);

  1. Loop the 2,3 and 4 step to create desired number of input elements given by the user inside the form element.

    for(var i=0;i<no;i++) {           
    var textfield = document.createElement("input");
    textfield.type = "text"; textfield.value = "";
    document.getElementById('form').appendChild(textfield);
}

Here's the complete code

function fun() {
    /*Getting the number of text fields*/
    var no = document.getElementById("idname").value;
    /*Generating text fields dynamically in the same form itself*/
    for(var i=0;i<no;i++) {
        var textfield = document.createElement("input");
        textfield.type = "text";
        textfield.value = "";
        document.getElementById('form').appendChild(textfield);
    }
}
<form id="form">
    <input type="type" id="idname" oninput="fun()" value="">
</form>

Upvotes: 13

Omar bakhsh
Omar bakhsh

Reputation: 1054

you can use ES6 back quits 

  var inputs = [
        `<input type='checkbox' id='chbox0' onclick='checkboxChecked(this);'> <input  type='text' class='noteinputs0'id='note` + 0 + `' placeholder='task0'><button  id='notebtn0'                     >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 1 + `' placeholder='task1'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn1' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 2 + `' placeholder='task2'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn2' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 3 + `' placeholder='task3'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn3' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 4 + `' placeholder='task4'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn4' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 5 + `' placeholder='task5'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn5' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 6 + `' placeholder='task6'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn6' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 7 + `' placeholder='task7'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn7' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 8 + `' placeholder='task8'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn8' >creat</button>`, `<input type='text' class='noteinputs' id='note` + 9 + `' placeholder='task9'><button  class='notebuttons' id='notebtn9' >creat</button>`
    ].sort().join(" ");
   document.querySelector('#hi').innerHTML += `<br>` +inputs;
<div id="hi"></div>

Upvotes: 1

Ghasem
Ghasem

Reputation: 15573

Using Javascript, all you need is document.createElement and setAttribute.

var input = document.createElement("input");
input.setAttribute('type', 'text');

Then you can use appendChild to append the created element to the desired parent element.

var parent = document.getElementById("parentDiv");
parent.appendChild(input);

Upvotes: 37

Ali Hassan Cheema
Ali Hassan Cheema

Reputation: 51

I think the following link will help you. If you want to generate fields dynamically and also want to remove them on the same time you can get the help from here. I had the same question, So i got the answer

$(function() {
        var scntDiv = $('#p_scents');
        var i = $('#p_scents p').size() + 1;

        $('#addScnt').live('click', function() {
                $('<p><label for="p_scnts"><input type="text" id="p_scnt" size="20" name="p_scnt_' + i +'" value="" placeholder="Input Value" /></label> <a href="#" id="remScnt">Remove</a></p>').appendTo(scntDiv);
                i++;
                return false;
        });

        $('#remScnt').live('click', function() { 
                if( i > 2  ) {
                        $(this).parents('p').remove();
                        i--;
                }
                return false;
        });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/jaredwilli/tZPg4/4/

Upvotes: 2

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 381

You could use createElement() method for creating that textbox

Upvotes: 1

Zach
Zach

Reputation: 7930

With JavaScript:

var input = document.createElement("input");
input.type = "text";
input.className = "css-class-name"; // set the CSS class
container.appendChild(input); // put it into the DOM

Upvotes: 195

SavoryBytes
SavoryBytes

Reputation: 36236

You could do something like this in a loop based on the number of text fields they enter.

$('<input/>').attr({type:'text',name:'text'+i}).appendTo('#myform');

But for better performance I'd create all the html first and inject it into the DOM only once.

var count = 20;
var html = [];
while(count--) {
  html.push("<input type='text' name='name", count, "'>");
}
$('#myform').append(html.join(''));

Edit this example uses jQuery to append the html, but you could easily modify it to use innerHTML as well.

Upvotes: 4

Eliasdx
Eliasdx

Reputation: 2180

Maybe the method document.createElement(); is what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 4

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