This sounds like an excellent idea. Chromium / WebKit had an issue with this in regards to copy & paste because some applications where inserting table-element-less tables into clipboard, and HTML5 parsing algorithm was stripping them out.
- Ryosuke On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be useful if there was a way to take a String of HTML and parse > it into a document fragment. This should work even if the HTML string > contains elements that are invalid in the "in body" insertion mode. > > Something like this code should work: > > var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); > frag.innerHTML = "<tr><td>hello</td></tr>" > someTable.appendChild(frag) > > At present, this can sometimes be achieved if the context of the HTML > string is known in advance. However, this is not always the case. For > instance, jQuery supplies an API that looks like this: > > $("html string").appendTo("#table") > > At the time that jQuery is creating the document fragment for the HTML > string, it does not yet know what its context will be. This approach is > used in order to enable convenient setup code. Here is a very contrived > example to illustrate the point: > > var frag = $("html string") > > // replace the HTML content of a descendent <span> with the contents of > its data-title attribute > frag.find("span[data-title]").html(function() { return > this.attr("data-title"); }) > > html.appendTo("#table") > > In general, this makes it easier to build abstractions that work with > Strings of HTML, without always needing to make sure consumers of the > abstraction know and pass in the existing context. > > This would probably require a new, laxer insertion mode, which would > behave similarly to the body insertion mode, but with different semantics > in the "*A start tag whose tag name is one of: "caption", "col", > "colgroup", "frame", "head", "tbody", "td", "tfoot", "th", "thead", "tr""* > case. > One way to handle those cases would be to immediately enter an appropriate > insertion mode if an unexpected tag was found. For instance, if a start tr > tag was encountered "at the root", the parser could go into "in table" or > "in table body" insertion mode instead of treating it like a parse error > and ignoring the token. > > -- Yehuda > > > -- > Yehuda Katz > (ph) 718.877.1325 >