Create Element

Programatically create an HTML string.

var createElement = require('create-element')

createElement('a', {
  id: 'user-link',
  href: '#',
  class: {
    yes: true,
    no: false,
    'maybe-so': true
  },
  'data-id': user.id
}, user.name)

yields:

<a id="user-link" href="#" class="yes maybe-so" data-id="jonathanong">Jonathan Ong</a>

API

createElement(tagName, [attributes], [innerHTML])

Output

HTML [String]

Input

• tagName [string] - tag name of the element. ie 'div' or 'blockquote'
• attributes [object] - object of attribute keys and values. See createElement.attributes for more details.
• innerHTML [function || string] - element's innerHTML. If a function, evaluates the function within createElement.element's current context, ie fn.call(this, '').

var html = createElement('a', {
  href: '#'
}, function (html) {
  // html === ''
  html += user.name

  return html
})

Both attributes and innerHTML are optional via type checking. If there is no innerHTML, the element will not be self closed depending on tagName.

createElement.attributes(attributes)

attributes is an object with attribute keys and values. Each attributes.value can be:

• [string] - Simply returns a string
• [array] - Removes the "falsey" strings and [].join(' ') the strings
• [object] - Removes the keys with "falsey" values and [].join(' ')s the keys

createElement.attributes({
  id: [
    '1',
    '2',
    false,
    null,
    '5'
  ],
  class: {
    yes: true,
    no: false,
    'maybe-so'; true
  },
  href: 'some string'
})

yields:

' id="1 2 5" class="yes maybe-so" href="some string"'

createElement.selfClosingTags

createElement.selfClosingTags = {
  meta: true,
  img: true,
  link: true,
  input: true,
  source: true,
  area: true,
  base: true,
  col: true,
  br: true,
  hr: true
}

createElement.openingTag(tagName, [attributes])

createElement.closingTag(tagName)

Browser Support

IE9+

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Ong [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.