On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > jQuery internally maps '<tagName>' to document.createElement( 'tagName' ). > This is a feature, and is used throughout jQuery internally. It's not very > well documented as such, but Timo is adding it to the documentation as to > resolve the confusion around this. $( '<div>' ) is a shortcut added to > jQuery for our convenience, and I think it's reasonable to use it. >
+ 1 I've always used '<div />'. Recently though, I learned that you no longer need to do that in jQuery. And since have been using '<div>'. > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Mark Holmquist > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> In creating elements, maybe, but after creation, $.prop() is the preferred >> way to go because the DOM properties are more reliably synced with the >> actual state of the UI--apparently jQuery doesn't always properly sync the >> HTML attributes to the browser state. I'm sure Timo can explain more fully >> (and maybe more accurately). >> > > We had this discussion yesterday, and addClass is more direct than prop( > 'className' ) in every way and unless you mean to actually replace all > existing classes, addClass is preferred. prop is there for a reason and > it's also safe to use as escaping goes, but obviously not all attributes > are actually properties, so it's not like we should stop using attr. > > - Trevor > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
