Better way to do this?

Javascript to create a node from text:

function createNodeFromText(text, nodeToReturn)\n{\n\tvar container = document.createElement("span");\n\tcontainer.innerHTML = text;\n\t\n\tif (!nodeToReturn)\n\t{\n\t\treturn container.firstChild;\n\t}\n\telse\n\t{\n\t\treturn  container.getElementsByTagName(nodeToReturn.toUpperCase()).item(0);\n\t}\n}

'nodeToReturn' allows you to select something from within the created DOM: createNodeFromText("<table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></table>", "tr") would return the TR node from the created node. Mainly I have to do this because you can't create just a TR with innerHTML.

Are there any better ways to create DOM from arbitrary text?

Post #240,635 by admin 1/6/06 8:40:36 PM Reply	Better way to do this? Javascript to create a node from text: function createNodeFromText(text, nodeToReturn)\n{\n\tvar container = document.createElement("span");\n\tcontainer.innerHTML = text;\n\t\n\tif (!nodeToReturn)\n\t{\n\t\treturn container.firstChild;\n\t}\n\telse\n\t{\n\t\treturn container.getElementsByTagName(nodeToReturn.toUpperCase()).item(0);\n\t}\n} 'nodeToReturn' allows you to select something from within the created DOM: `createNodeFromText("<table><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></table>", "tr")` would return the TR node from the created node. Mainly I have to do this because you can't create just a TR with innerHTML. Are there any better ways to create DOM from arbitrary text? Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #240,638 by ChrisR 1/6/06 9:12:44 PM Reply	Short of building your own parser... ...no better way comes to mind (assuming the text is truly arbitrary).
Post #240,782 by static 1/8/06 8:35:57 PM Reply	That looks pretty clean. Although I understand you've objecting the the algorithm. Have you looked on www.quirksmode.org? It can be hard to find things sometimes, but has code and discussions about that sort of thing. Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."

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