Convert string to html tags in Javascript

Question

I want to convert the following string to HTML tags and place it inside my div.

<strong>asdfadfsafsd</strong>

I am using the following code to place it inside my div:

var message = "<strong>testmessage</strong&gt";
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = bericht;

The problem is that I see the following in my div now:

<strong>testmessage</strong>

But I want to see: testmessage

What is the problem?

Answer 1

 var string = "<strong>asdfadfsafsd</strong>", results = document.getElementById("results") results.innerHTML = string; results.innerHTML = results.textContent; 

 <div id="results"></div> 

At first load the it as html. Then fetch it as text and then again load it as HTML :)

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Answer 2

Try createElement

var tag = document.createElement("strong");
var t = document.createTextNode("testmessage");
tag.appendChild(t);
document.body.appendChild(tag);