Dynamically appending text lines

Question

The goal of the code is to create a new input line each time the last line is focused, until a certain amount of lines. I was offered this solution which works great:

$(function() {
    $("#qc>div:last-of-type>input").live('focus', function() {
        $(this).parent().after($(this).parent().clone().attr('id', 'ansInput' + $('#qc>div').length).find('input').val('').end());
    });
});

but I also want to change each time the text before the line, so clone won't cut it

I modified it to write a pre-ready HTML line, but it doesn't work:

function questionsForm() {
    $("#qc>div:last-of-type>input").live('focus', function() {

        lineNum = $('#qc>div').length
        newLine = ("<div id='ansInput{0}'>Answer {0}: <input type='text' name='ans{0}' /></div><!--ans1-->").format(lineNum);

        if ($('#qc>div').length <= 4) { 
            $(this).parent().after(newLine);
        }
    });
}

(the .format method is predefined)

I would like to understand why my code isn't working, and how to chamge it, but not completely different solutions (unless of course my code has some fundamental errors..)

Answer 1

you are missing a semicolon after lineNum = $('#qc>div').length

why is that code in the questionsForm() function?
you could just place it in the jquery ready function $(function(){ ... });

Also what does your format function look like?