User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/easydom.js: Difference between revisions

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function createEasyDomFunction(name) {

var stringType = typeof '';

var functionType = typeof function() {};

// Detects if the first element is a hash of attributes and if so,

return function() {

// uses it to set attributes on the DOM node

var elem = document.createElement(name);

//

// Returns the number of elements processed to let the caller know

// how many of the arguments to skip

var processAttributes = function(elem, args) {

if (attrValueargs.length == null0) {

return 0;

}

if// (arguments.lengthDetect ==string 0) return elem;arguments

var firstArgType = typeof args[0];

if (firstArgType == stringType) {

return 0;

}

var// firstChildDetect =function 0;arguments

if (typeoffirstArgType arguments[0] !== functionType) 'string'{

&&return typeof arguments[0].nodeType == 'undefined') {;

}

// Detect DOM var attrs = arguments[0];nodes

forif (vartypeof attrNameargs[0].nodeType in!= attrs'undefined') {

return var attrValue = attrs[attrName]0;

// Skip null values}

if (attrValue == null) {

// Assume that we got a hash of attributes as the first continue;arg...

var attrs = }args[0];

for (var attrName in attrs) {

// Invoke functions and use their result as the value

var if (typeof(attrValue) == 'function') {attrs[attrName];

// Invoke functions and use their result as attrValuethe = attrValue();value

if (typeof attrValue == }functionType) {

//attrValue Set= the attributeattrValue();

elem.setAttribute(attrName, attrValue);

}

firstChild// =Skip 1;null values

if (attrValue == null) {

continue;

}

// Set the attribute

elem.setAttribute(attrName, attrValue);

}

// Return the number of arguments processed

return 1;

};

return function() {

var elem = document.createElement(name);

// Process attribute hash, if any and skip the argument count returned

var firstChild = processAttributes(elem, arguments);

// Process the remaining children, if any

for (var i = firstChild; i < arguments.length; i++) {

var child = arguments[i];