How do I create a DIV with javascript?

I found out myself:

var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
var divIdName = 'testDiv';
newdiv.setAttribute('id',divIdName);
newdiv.style.width = "300px";
newdiv.style.height = "300px";
newdiv.style.left = "300px";
newdiv.style.top = "300px";
newdiv.style.position = "absolute";
newdiv.style.background = "#00C";
newdiv.style.border = "4px solid #000";
newdiv.innerHTML = 'Test Div';
document.body.appendChild(newdiv);

good work...now give me your points...lol

Ok, good enough david, but what I usually do is to define the DIV in the html code like this (example with some of your attributes):

<div name="testDiv" id="divID" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; left: 300px; top: 300px; position: absolute; display: none">
Test Div
</div>

Note the "display: none" which hides it initially.

When you want to show it, just execute

document.getElementById("divID").style.display = "";

You can also create copies of it in javascript and - of course - hide it again.

I think it makes it simpler to keep layout in the html file and only let javascript handle execution.

Jakob

Thanks, Jakob, but I needed the complete dynamic approach since it will be used on different html-pages without me being able to alter the html on beforehand.

you guy's are great!