createElement + createTextNode oneliner?

Question

I\'m adding a few thousand rows to a table so i need the speed of native javascript for this one.

Currently I\'m using:

nThName = document.createElement(         


        

Answer 1

This can be done, as an example:

document.body.appendChild(
    document.createElement('div').appendChild(
        document.createTextNode('hello')
    ).parentNode
);

JS Fiddle representative demo.

I think it's just your approach to chaining that was off; given your specific demo code:

nTr.appendChild(
    document.createElement('th').appendChild(
        document.createTextNode(workers[i].name)
    ).parentNode
);

The white-space here isn't essential, it's simply to more-clearly show what goes where.