Comments on: Creating HTML blocks with Mootools

By: aljun83

aljun83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:21:02 +0000

Thanks for the short examples. Now, I have an idea for making a HTML.

By: Eneko Alonso

Eneko Alonso — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:56:34 +0000

Finally, the best way to generate HTML from Javascript: Mooml :)
http://mootools.net/forge/p/mooml

By: Eneko Alonso

Eneko Alonso — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:55:40 +0000

Thanks for the tip Aaron. We noticed here the problem with multiple root elements on the html fragment. Our solution was to return .getChildren() instead of .getFirst(), but that wouldn’t work either if there were any text nodes at the root of the html (kinda weird but..). Maybe you would like to consider that on the new Elements.From code.

What is exactly the issue with table nodes and what do they require special handling?

By: Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:50:32 +0000

There’s actually a solution for you coming in the next MooTools More (hopefully coming out in a week or so):

http://github.com/mootools/mootools-more/blob/master/Source/Element/Elements.From.js

There are a few things to recognize here:

1) a string of html may return more than one element at the top level, so it’s better to return an instance of Elements instead of Element
2) attempting this with table elements will produce poor results
3) if your html includes scripts, you might want to handle that differently