How to insert a line break with javascript?

TheAmazingKnight picture TheAmazingKnight · Mar 8, 2014 · Viewed 84.8k times · Source

The Submit Form I have has the name, email, and phone number fields. Of course, I want to insert line break between the three. I tried to insert a line break between all three, but only generated one at the end of the form, when my code should appended 3 line breaks, not one.

The generated view source shows this:

<label>Name: </label><input required="" name="fullName" type="text"><label>Email: </label>   <input required="" name="email" type="text"><label>Phone Number: </label><input required="" name="phoneNumber" type="text"><br><input value="Submit Query" type="submit"></form>

My Javascript Code to produce this form:

function queryForm()
{
    var queryBox = document.getElementById("queryBox").style.display = "block";
    var queryForm = document.getElementById("queryForm");
    var linebreak = document.createElement("br");

    var lblName = document.createElement("label");
    lblName.textContent = "Name: ";
    queryForm.appendChild(lblName);

    var fullName = document.createElement("input");
    fullName.name = "fullName";
    fullName.type = "text";
    fullName.required = "required";
    queryForm.appendChild(fullName);
    queryForm.appendChild(linebreak);


    var lblEmail = document.createElement("label");
    lblEmail.textContent = "Email: ";
    queryForm.appendChild(linebreak);
    queryForm.appendChild(lblEmail);

    var email = document.createElement("input");
    email.name = "email";
    email.type = "text";
    email.required = "required";
    queryForm.appendChild(email);


    var lblPhoneNumber = document.createElement("label");
    lblPhoneNumber.textContent = "Phone Number: ";
    queryForm.appendChild(linebreak);
    queryForm.appendChild(lblPhoneNumber);

    var phoneNumber = document.createElement("input");
    phoneNumber.name = "phoneNumber";
    phoneNumber.type = "text";
    phoneNumber.required = "required";
    queryForm.appendChild(phoneNumber);


    var submitQuery = document.createElement("input");
    submitQuery.type = "submit";
    submitQuery.value = "Submit Query";
    queryForm.appendChild(linebreak);
    queryForm.appendChild(submitQuery);
}

Answer

Suman Bogati picture Suman Bogati · Mar 8, 2014

You should create new <br> tag each time when you will append it, something like

linebreak = document.createElement("br");
queryForm.appendChild(linebreak);

DEMO