Feel like I hit a jackpot.
Thanks!
On Aug 17, 1:11 am, "Erik Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The jQuery function $() can parse HTML, as can the various DOM
> functions (append, prepend, appendTo, etc):
>
> $('<input id="foo" type="text"/>').appendTo('#myForm');
>
> --Erik
>
> On 8/16/07, Anurag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am a jQuery beginner. I am working on an application for which I
> > need to create DOM elements on the fly. Previously I was using
> > document.createElement() and document.createTextNode() but that's not
> > concise and looks odd along with jQuery code.
>
> > So I wrote a tiny 3 line plugin jquery.new.js. It's more of a hit and
> > trial outcome.
>
> > jQuery.new = function(element) {
> > return $(document.createElement(element));
> > }
>
> > I wrapped the new element that was created with the jQuery object so I
> > can chain functions. For example:
> > var inputBox = $.new("input").attr("type", "text").attr("id",
> > "someText");
>
> > Is there a better way to do this? Or does jQuery already have this
> > functionality inbuilt?
