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JavaScript

Peter Retvari
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Peter Retvari
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,392 Points
Posted by Peter Retvari
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Peter Retvari
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,392 Points

<h1> tags in quote marks

Hey Guys,

I noticed that this time we use <h1> tag with quote marks. I'm a little bit confused. If it's HTML we should write the message like this: <h1> Hi, welcome to my site </h1> I know that we are programming in JS, but once we use HTML tag it's confusing to see the usual form between quote marks:"<h1> Hi, welcome to my site </h1>"

and the other thing: if we use "" it means that inside the content it's a text/string value. How can the HTML tag works with this?

2 Answers

Ray Karyshyn
Ray Karyshyn
13,443 Points
Ray Karyshyn
Ray Karyshyn
13,443 Points

Hi Peter,

The reason we put <h1> tags in quotes is so we can insert HTML code dynamically with languages like JavaScript.

For example, I can insert my heading with JavaScript (notice how I put quotes around the <h1> tags):

HTML

<div id="banner">

</div>

JavaScript

// find element
var banner = $("#banner");

// thing to insert
var message = "<h1>Hi, welcome to my site!</h1>";

// insert message
banner.html(message);

JSFiddle Link