jQuery document.createElement equivalent?

Question

I\'m refactoring some old JavaScript code and there\'s a lot of DOM manipulation going on.

var d = document;
var odv = d.createElement(\"div\");
odv.style.di         


        

Answer 1

jQuery out of the box doesn't have the equivalent of a createElement. In fact the majority of jQuery's work is done internally using innerHTML over pure DOM manipulation. As Adam mentioned above this is how you can achieve similar results.

There are also plugins available that make use of the DOM over innerHTML like appendDOM, DOMEC and FlyDOM just to name a few. Performance wise the native jquery is still the most performant (mainly becasue it uses innerHTML)