Comments on: Document CreateTag Method

By: MillsJROSS

MillsJROSS — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:03:36 +0000

JQuery natively does this by parsing through a string of how you’d write your HTML on the page. Not sure about Dojo, but it’s probably a safe bet that most libraries have some method of doing this.

This struck an idea in me, of a hackish way in which to create a very simple createTag, although, I haven’t tested in extensively. The idea is that you have a hidden div tag with the id “createTag” and a function like this:

function createTag(tagStr) {

}

By: MillsJROSS

MillsJROSS — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:11:31 +0000

Woops…accidently pressed things…anyway a function like this:

function createTag(tagStr) {
var div = document.getElementById(”createElement”);
div.innerHTML = tagStr;
return createElement.firstChild;
}

The advantage in this being that most of the work is done by the browser, with little code. You just append the tag where you want it. However, as mentioned, I have not fully tested this for browser compatability.

By: MillsJROSS

MillsJROSS — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:13:06 +0000

Woops again…

return div.firstChild;

return div.firstChild.cloneNode(true);

Sorry for the triple post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:46:20 +0000

“The switch statement then, normalizes the keys, so the key ‘checked’ does the same thing as ‘cHeCkEd’, because capitalization does matter.”

switch (k.toLowerCase()) {

…

case ‘checked’:
case ‘disabled’:
node[k] = v;
break;

Would that not be bad, as ‘ChEcKed’ would be caught, but the assignment would end up being node[’ChEcKed’] = v; which, as far as I’m aware, would fail?

By: Matt Snider

Matt Snider — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:01:11 +0000

You are correct. The variable k should be lower-cased after fetching the value from the hash. I have updated the script above to reflect this change.