# Writing HTML with javascript
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**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [April 7, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-html-with-javascript/285931 "2009-04-07T21:42:41Z")\
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**Author:**  [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-html-with-javascript/285931/1 "2009-04-07T21:42:41Z")
I am looping through an XML file and need to loop and create list of thumbnails with some text. How can I write a div and output it depending on how many nodes are in the XML? If I use document.write it erases anything static that I would have had like navigation, images etc. Here is a sample doc that is using just document.write
```auto
Untitled Document
```