create-simple-element

Create simple HTML elements using CSS selectors.

Import

From browser

import createSimpleElement from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/create-simple-element/createSimpleElement.js';

From Deno

Uses deno-dom. To use a different HTML implementation, see Custom usage.

import createSimpleElement from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/create-simple-element/createSimpleElement.deno.js';

From Node

Requires jsdom : yarn add jsdom. To use a different HTML implementation, see Custom usage.

import createSimpleElement from 'create-simple-element';

Usage

Default

console.log(createSimpleElement('input#foo.bar[type="password"]:required').outerHTML);
// -> <input id="foo" class="bar" type="password" required="">

console.log(createSimpleElement('ul.foo > li.foo__bar + li.foo__bar.foo__bar--baz').outerHTML);
// -> <ul class="foo"><li class="foo__bar"></li><li class="foo__bar foo__bar--baz"></li></ul>

Custom

Here's an example using happy-dom as HTML implementation on Node instead of the default one.

import { createParser } from 'css-selector-parser';
import { Window } from 'happy-dom';

import createSimpleElementCreator from './createSimpleElementCreator.js';

const createSimpleElement = createSimpleElementCreator({
    createParser,
    document: (new Window()).document
});

console.log(createSimpleElement('input#foo.bar[type="password"]:required').outerHTML);
// -> <input id="foo" class="bar" type="password" required="">

Supported items

• ID (#foo)
• Class (.foo)
• Attribute ([foo="bar"])
• Pseudo-classes (that actually create attributes) :
  • :checked (short for [checked=""])
  • :disabled (short for [disabled=""])
  • :required (short for [required=""])
• Combinators :
  • Child (>)
  • Next sibling (+)

Emmet

This module only supports the CSS syntax, e.g. it doesn't support grouping & multiplying like emmet does.

For this purpose, use emel instead :

import emel from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/emel/+esm';
console.log(emel('ul.foo>li.foo__bar*2', { returnSingleChild: true }).outerHTML);
// -> <ul class="foo"><li class="foo__bar"></li><li class="foo__bar"></li></ul>