el

0.2.3 • Public • Published

el

el is a module for inserting DOM elements into and around other DOM elements. The interesting part is that, when used server-side, the inserted elements respect their parents’ indentation — this makes for tidy HTML output.

Build status

Browser support

Install

npm install el

API

// Make the element the target’s first/last child.
.prepend(target, element)
.append(target, element)
 
// Add the element before/after the target.
.before(target, element)
.after(target, element)
 
// Replace whichever elements were inside the target with the new element.
.insert(target, element)
 
// If a target has no indentation whitespace, use this type ('  ', '\t', etc). Note that it will only be used if no existing indentation is found.
.set(indent)

Example

var fs = require('fs')
var el = require('el')
var mkdom = require('mkdom')
 
var wrapper = fs.readFileSync('./templates/blog.html')
var article = fs.readFileSync('./templates/blog-article.html')
 
// Create DOM elements
var page = mkdom(wrapper)
var content = mkdom(article)
 
// Add data
page.querySelector('title').textContent =
content.querySelector('h1').textContent = 'My post title'
content.querySelector('p').textContent = 'Once upon a time…'
 
el.insert(page.querySelector('body'), content)
 
process.stdout.write(page.doctype + page.outerHTML)

Note

When an element is inserted it gets converted into HTML. This means it can no longer be manipulated, so leave all your insertions until the last minute.

License

MIT

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npm i el

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Version

0.2.3

License

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