How Do I Create a Link Using Javascript?

Question

I have a string for a title and a string for a link. I'm not sure how to put the two together to create a link on a page using Javascript. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT1: Adding more detail to the question. The reason I'm trying to figure this out is because I have an RSS feed and have a list of titles ands URLs. I would like to link the titles to the URL to make the page useful.

EDIT2: I am using jQuery but am completely new to it and wasn't aware it could help in this situation.

Accepted Answer

<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <script>
      var a = document.createElement('a');
      var linkText = document.createTextNode("my title text");
      a.appendChild(linkText);
      a.title = "my title text";
      a.href = "";
      document.body.appendChild(a);
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Answer 2

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With JavaScript

var a = document.createElement('a');
a.setAttribute('href',desiredLink);
a.innerHTML = desiredText;
// apend the anchor to the body
// of course you can append it almost to any other dom element
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(a);

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML += '<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>';

or, as suggested by @travis :

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML += desiredText.link(desiredLink);

<script type="text/javascript">
//note that this case can be used only inside the "body" element
document.write('<a href="'+desiredLink+'">'+desiredText+'</a>');
</script>

How Do I Create a Link Using Javascript?

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Alexander Ross