Seems like you can use javascript to effectively end up with simple html? why?

[number47]

I was going over some tutorial things, and attempting to make sense of the javascript language.

Is there a good solid reason why you would want to use javascript to make the page display text that is able to be written with plain simple html <p> tag or something ?

[Ingolme]

You would if the page is interactive and the content changes based on user input. For example, making an error message show up on the page if a form field has invalid information.

[number47]

anything else? would you use javascript for no particular reason if you only intended on a paragraph showing and not being directly interactive or seen to be. I notice sometimes, I copy over text with highlight as I read, Sometimes, It mixes the color of my ordinary higlight background and other times it changes it all together. It seems like I am getting swayed to make javascript state the text I wish to insert into a page.

anything else for reasons why you might?

[davej]

If the text does not need to change dynamically then you would simply use HTML. This would have no effect on the way the text selection looks.