Hixie: As I mentioned before, createElementNS (or createElement for HTML) works
fine for a small block of markup, but what if you want to put in a huge block
without doing node insertion? Is DOM version 3 going to have some kind of
reasonable replacement for something on the lines of innerHTML (but also
available for XML)?

--- Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Tom Gilder wrote:
> >
> > You could of course use the DOM to generate the checkbox, but you'd
> > have to wait for onload to fire, which is a bad thing
> 
> You shouldn't need to:
> 
>    <div id="hook"></div>
>    <script type="application/x-javascript">
>      /* in an XHTML document this would have to use createElementNS(), not
>         createElement(), but that's another story */
>      var element = document.createElement('INPUT');
>      element.onclick = function() { ... };
>      // etc...
>      document.getElementById('hook').appendChild(element);
>    </script>
> 
> (The above might need some tweaks to work in legacy UAs like Windows IE6,
> but the basic principle should work in any UA with DOM1 support.)
> 
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