{"id":94,"date":"2009-10-19T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2009\/10\/creating_a_new_element_with_jquery_with_or_without_a_plugin-shtml\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:37:26","slug":"creating_a_new_element_with_jquery_with_or_without_a_plugin-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/creating_a_new_element_with_jquery_with_or_without_a_plugin-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A New Element With jQuery, With Or Without A Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nUPDATE: Whilst this remains an interesting example of creating a simple plugin, I no longer recommend this way of creating elements in jQuery. Instead just pass the html you want to use into jQuery directly as a string, e.g. var myH1Element = jQuery(\"<h1>My H1 Test<\/h1>\");<\/code><\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne function that seems to be missing in jQuery<\/a> is to create new elements outside of the current DOM<\/acronym>.\n<\/p>\n

\nThere is a good reason for this, normal vanilla JavaScript has the function createElement to do the job for you.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo create a new h1<\/code> element for example, we can do the following.\n<\/p>\n

var myH1Element = document.createElement('h1');
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nWe can easily combine this with jQuery to set the text inside for example…\n<\/p>\n

jQuery(myH1Element).text(\"My H1 Text\");
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nThere is one downside, using the standard createElement<\/code> we’re not able to chain functions with jQuery.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe way around this is to wrap the request in jQuery like this…\n<\/p>\n

jQuery(document.createElement(\"h1\"));
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nNow we can chain this together as before…\n<\/p>\n

jQuery(document.createElement(\"h1\")).text(\"My H1 Text\");
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nIf you don’t like the look of that, then we could always create a jQuery plugin, and add a createElement<\/code> function to jQuery.\n<\/p>\n

jQuery.extend({
\ncreateElement : function(elementName) {
\nreturn jQuery(document.createElement(elementName));
\n}
\n});
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nThat must be one of the simpliest jQuery plugins ever!\n<\/p>\n

\nNow we have extended jQuery with a createElement<\/code> function we can chain calls to it like this.\n<\/p>\n

jQuery.createElement(\"h1\").text(\"My H1 Text\").appendTo(\"body\");
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nThis will create a new h1<\/code> element, add the text “My H1 Text” inside the h1<\/code>, then append the h1<\/code> inside the documents body<\/code> tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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