Re: [whatwg] createElement convenience method

Thomas Broyer:
> How would you test that it is available?
> 
> <script>if ("getElementsByClassName" in document) { ... }</script>
> or
> <script>if (document.getElementsByClassName) { ... }</script>
> work, but how would you test that createElement and/or createElementNS
> can take an additional argument?

If document.getElementsByClassName is an actual Function, you could test
that document.getElementsByClassName.length == 2.

> createElementWithTextContent could work, but then you'd also want a
> createAttributeWithValue.
> 
> I doubt though there would be a huge advantage over doing:
>     var link_to_add = document.createElement("a");
>     link_to_add.textContent = the_text.nodeValue;

Agreed.

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