Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

createTextNode( )

Using the createTextNode( ) method (also on the document object), we can generate a text node to attach to our newly created div. Let’s assign the new text node to the variable text:

var text = document.createTextNode( 'This is a new div' );

We now have two newly created nodes, but they aren’t connected. To do that, we need to use the DOM to make the text node a child of the div. We can accomplish this in a number of ways.