[Javascript] document.createElement("TBODY")

[Nick Fitzsimons]

On 17 Apr 2007, at 16:36:12, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> Michael Borchers wrote:
>
>> Is there any other way to parse the response than innerHTML?
>
> Using innerHTML is not "parsing" the response. At all.

Actually, "parsing" is precisely what it is: when you assign a string  
to the innerHTML property of an element, the browser runs the string  
through its tag soup HTML parser, which then builds up the DOM  
structure in exactly the same way as it does when loading a page.  
This can be demonstrated by identifying a piece of markup which is  
parsed incorrectly when present in a document; if the same text is  
assigned to innerHTML, the same incorrect parsing will occur.

(I keep meaning to write up a demonstration of this which I presented  
at BarCampLondon2; if anybody's interested, hoot at me off-list and  
it should encourage me to pull my finger out.)

Regards,

Nick.
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