RE: Convenient way to create element and set its attributes at once from Domenic Denicola on 2013-12-03 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 02:08:21 +0000
To: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
CC: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
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From: Rick Waldron [mailto:waldron.rick@gmail.com] 

> Yes, and it's not just you-the "single function/constructor/method that accepts a string and produces a node" is a common pattern implemented by all major libraries:
>
> Y.Node.create("<div>");
> jQuery("<div>");
> dojo.create("div");
> new Element("div"); 
> new Ext.dom.Element("div");

And don't forget:

document.createElement("div");

(Wait, what just happened?!)

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