On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Enter documentFragment. It would be very useful in this scenario to just > create a documentFragment, chuck the new HTML into it via innerHTML and > then use insertBefore to put the fragment into the right place in the node > we want to augment. > > I realise this is a niche scenario that is not often encountered, but I'd > be interested in the rationale behind not implementing it, or whether > others think it would be a good idea to add this feature.
Isn't this exactly what insertAdjacentHTML() does? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/apis-in-html-documents.html#insertadjacenthtml() On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to parse this string: > > <form><tr><td>Some text</td></tr></form> > > then the DOM it produces depends on whether it's being parsed in the context > of a <table> parent element or not. Try setting the innerHTML of a <table> > and a <div> to the above string, and examine the resulting DOM trees. > > That's what I meant when I said that to properly parse a string you need to > know the context it's being parsed in. Well, you could create the DocumentFragment using createContextualFragment() if you liked. But insertAdjacentHTML() is a better fit.
