I am trying to set the value of a input button to a string variable.i.e"A Guide to the School Bus"; But when the HTML loads up only the first word es up in the button. My code is given below. Thanks for the help.

var title="A Guide to the School Bus";
var htmlString= "<div class="+title+ ">"+"<input type="+"button  "+"value="+title+"  onclick=loadBook()>"+"</div>";
$(htmlString).appendTo(attachPoint);

And the attachpoint is a reference in the HTML that i got using the following.

var attachpoint=document.querySelector('.buttonAttachPoint');

I am trying to set the value of a input button to a string variable.i.e"A Guide to the School Bus"; But when the HTML loads up only the first word es up in the button. My code is given below. Thanks for the help.

var title="A Guide to the School Bus";
var htmlString= "<div class="+title+ ">"+"<input type="+"button  "+"value="+title+"  onclick=loadBook()>"+"</div>";
$(htmlString).appendTo(attachPoint);

And the attachpoint is a reference in the HTML that i got using the following.

var attachpoint=document.querySelector('.buttonAttachPoint');

• javascript
• jquery
• html

• The Button just show "A". – user2208533 Commented Mar 26, 2013 at 20:32
• You could attach your handler rather than put an "onclick" inline: $(htmlString).appendTo(attachPoint).click(loadBook) – Stephen P Commented Mar 26, 2013 at 20:55

1 Answer 1

The problem is because you're not putting quotes around the attribute values. Try this:

var htmlString= '<div class="'+title+'"><input type="button" value="'+title+'"  onclick="loadBook()"></div>';

You can either escape all the " in your string or, like I have done, just switch between ' and ". " will show up as a normal character and ' is used to mark the start and finish of strings.

As a side point you probably wouldn't want to put the variable title as the class on the div as it would add each separate word as a class, so in your example the div would have 6 classes added to it.