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Ryan Rassoli
3,365 PointsUsing <p> tags in JavaScript
When do you use <p> tags in JavaScript. For instance, in one of the videos it says document.write ("<p>That's right!</p>"); but in other lines of the same program it doesn't include any tags. When do you put in the tags and what is the point if you already have the phrase in quotes?
4 Answers
Laly Singh
2,029 PointsHey Ryan!
document.write() and alert() are different methods. The alert box will just output a box on the browser, it will not write anything directly on the page, your HTML page. Try it, if you do alert(<p>This is right</p>), you will get an alert box with this "<p>This is right</p>" which is not really useful if you want your text to look like a paragraph right?
The document.write() will write something on the page. That's why you can use document.write(<p>This is right</p>) and document.write(This is right). It will display a different output.
First case document.write(<p>This is right</p>) it will write on your html "This is right" as a paragraph. Second case: document.write(This is right) it will write "This is right" as normal text.
Hope that clears things a little bit.
mc24
Courses Plus Student 3,041 PointsThats the same like you can use Javascript in HTML files with <script></script> .
You have to remember that most of the programming languages work together, even in the same file. There is no such thing like "you can only use HTML in HTML-Files".
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 Points<p> tags and other tags are HTML. So if you wrap content with <p></p>, you're saying this is a paragraph element. Without a tag you are just placing text in the document.
Ryan Rassoli
3,365 PointsI understand that, but that's not what my question is asking. In the JavaScript file, there was a line of code that said alert("<p>This is right</p>") and the exact same thing again without the <p> tags. I don't understand when to use the p tags. I thought your only supposed to use those in HTML.
Dennis Oliphant Jr
2,751 PointsSo using the <p></p> method in JavaScript is similar to writing inline CSS code?