a small, simple, and fast DOM creation utility
Writing HTML is stupid. It's slow, messy, and should not be done in JavaScript.
The best way to make DOM elements is via document.createElement, but making lots of DOM with it is tedious.
crel.js makes the process easier.
Inspiration was taken from https://github.com/joestelmach/laconic, but crel wont screw with your bad in-DOM event listeners, and is smaller, faster, etc...
Signature:
crel(tagName/dom element [, attributes, child1, child2, childN...])
For browserify:
npm i crel
var crel = require('crel');
For standard script tag style:
<script src="crel.min.js"></script>
To make some DOM:
Example:
var element = crel('div',
crel('h1', 'Crello World!'),
crel('p', 'This is crel'),
crel('input', {type: 'number'})
);
// Do something with 'element'
You can create attributes with dashes, or reserved keywords, but using strings for the objects keys:
crel('div', {'class':'thing', 'data-attrubute':'majigger'});
You can pass an already available element to crel, and it will be the target of the attributes/child elements
crel(document.body,
crel('h1', 'Page title')
)
You can assign child elements to variables during creation:
var button,
wrapper = crel('div',
button = crel('button')
);
You could probably use crel to rearrange existing dom..
crel(someDiv,
crel(someOtherDiv, anotherOne)
)
But don't.
Crel works in everything (as far as I know), but ofcourse...
If you require this library to work in IE7, add the following after declaring crel.
var testDiv = document.createElement('div'),
testLabel = document.createElement('label');
testDiv.setAttribute('class', 'a');
testDiv['className'] !== 'a' ? crel.attrMap['class'] = 'className':undefined;
testDiv.setAttribute('name','a');
testDiv['name'] !== 'a' ? crel.attrMap['name'] = function(element, value){
element.id = value;
}:undefined;
testLabel.setAttribute('for', 'a');
testLabel['htmlFor'] !== 'a' ? crel.attrMap['for'] = 'htmlFor':undefined;
easily less than 1K minified easily less than 500 bytes gzipped
crel is fast. Depending on what browser you use, it is up there with straight document.createElement calls.
http://jsperf.com/dom-creation-libs/10
MIT