DOM Enlightenment Book

HTML

<script src="https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js"></script>
<div></div>

































<h4 style="border-top:1px solid #ADADAD;padding-top:20px;margin-top:20px;"><strong>&larr; Code Example from <a href="http://www.domenlightenment.com/" target="_blank">DOM Enlightenment Book</a> by <a href="http://www.codylindley.com" target="_blank">Cody Lindley</a></strong></h4>

<p style="background-color:#fff">JavaScript code is executed on page load. Click the "Run" button in the top bar to re-run the JavaScript code. All <code>console.log()'s</code> are logged to the <a href="http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite" target="_blank">Firebug Lite</a> console below &darr;.</p>

JavaScript

//create a <div> and document fragment
var divElm = document.createElement('div');
var docFrag = document.createDocumentFragment();

//append div to document fragment
docFrag.appendChild(divElm);

//create a DOM structure from a string
docFrag.querySelector('div').innerHTML = '<ul><li>foo</li><li>bar</li></ul>';

//append, starting with the first child node contained inside of the <div>
document.querySelector('div').appendChild(docFrag.querySelector('div').firstChild);

//logs <ul><li>foo</li><li>bar</li></ul>
console.log(document.querySelector('div').innerHTML);