create-element

Javascript: document.createElement('') & delete DOMElement

If you create a element within a function like: function makeDomElement() { var createdElement = document.createElement('textarea'); } And you do not append it anywhere in the DOM i.e. via .appendChild functions, does it still remain in memory? So would you have to do function makeDomElement() { var createdElement = document.cr...

Should you add HTML to the DOM using innerHTML or by creating new elements one by one?

There are two methods to add HTML-code to the DOM and I don't know what is the best way to do it. First method The first way is the easy one, I could simply add HTML-code (with jQuery) using $('[code here]').appendTo(element); which is much like element.innerHTML = [code here]; Second method Another way is to create all the elements ...

HTML5 for IE6.0

Hello! Do you know any method to optimize this HTML Code to IE6 or 7 (or 8) without adding any HTML elements, or the IE is skipping all the HTML5 elements? If i just want to format elements with CSS, - i dont want to use other features - is the document.createElement("nav") DOM element create enough to scam IE and make a plain HTML doc...

Creating an element and insertBefore is not working...

Ok, I've been banging my head up against the wall on this and I have no clue why it isn't creating the element. Maybe something very small that I overlooked here. Basically, there is this Javascript code that is in a PHP document being outputted, like somewhere in the middle of when the page gets loaded, NOW, unfortunately it can't go ...