dom-utils

A collection of utilities for working with the DOM.

Installation

npm install @ultraq/dom-utils

API

addEventDelegate(element, eventName, selector, handler)

Add an event listener to element that only fires when the target of the event matches selector.

• element:
• eventName:
• selector:
• handler:

clearChildren(element)

Removes all of an element's child nodes.

• element

deserialize(htmlString)

Deserialize an HTML string into a document fragment.

• htmlString

parseJsonFromElement(selector)

Parse the text content of the element picked out by the given selector as JSON data, returning it as an object. Returns null if no data could be read.

• selector: a CSS selector for picking out the HTML element that contains the JSON data
• scope: optional, the DOM tree to run the selector over. Defaults to the current document.

serialize(documentOrFragment)

Serialize a document or document fragment into an HTML string.

• documentOrFragment