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Given an HTML element and the task is to create an <img> element and append it to the document using JavaScript. In these examples when someone clicks on the button then the <img> element created. We can replace click event by any other JavaScript event.
Approach 1:
- Create an empty img element using document.createElement() method.
- Then set its attributes like (src, height, width, alt, title etc).
- Finally, insert it into the document.
Example 1: This example implements the above approach.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>
How to create an image element
dynamically using JavaScript ?
</title>
</head>
<body id = "body" style = "text-align:center;">
<h2 style = "color:green;" >
GeeksforGeeks
</h2>
<p id = "GFG_UP" style =
"font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">
</p>
<button title = "GFG_Fun()">
click here
</button>
<p id = "GFG_DOWN" style =
"color:green; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">
</p>
<script>
var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
up.innerHTML = "Click on the button to add image element";
var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
function GFG_Fun() {
var img = document.createElement('img');
img.src =
document.getElementById('body').appendChild(img);
down.innerHTML = "Image Element Added.";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Output:
Approach 2:
- Create an empty image instance using new Image().
- Then set its attributes like (src, height, width, alt, title etc).
- Finally, insert it to the document.
Example 2: This example implements the above approach.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>
How to create an image element
dynamically using JavaScript ?
</title>
</head>
<body id = "body" style = "text-align:center;">
<h2 style = "color:green;" >
GeeksforGeeks
</h2>
<p id = "GFG_UP" style =
"font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">
</p>
<button title = "GFG_Fun()">
click here
</button>
<p id = "GFG_DOWN" style =
"color:green; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">
</p>
<script>
var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
up.innerHTML = "Click on the button to add image element";
var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
function GFG_Fun() {
var img = new Image();
img.src =
document.getElementById('body').appendChild(img);
down.innerHTML = "Image Element Added.";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Output:
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