avoid innerHTML parsing

[Sergey Batishchev]

I need to create element with some content inside. This may be any
HTML stuff - tags, text. I do next

Set newelem = doc.createElement("span")
newelem.innerHTML = "<a href=""test\test.htm"">1st</a>"

(code above is written in VB, but it does not matter)

but in saved HTML I have anchor with absolute path
<a href="file:///c:/test/test.htm">1st</a>

All I want is avoiding internal parsing of innerHTML. I found, that I
can
set anchor.href directly and it will not be parsed. But I need to
parse string with element and find "href" substring. This seem to be a
buggy way.
I prefer to do it with no workarounds, with some simple and bugs-free
way.
Is there any chance for that?

[Martin Honnen]

Sergey Batishchev wrote:

I need to create element with some content inside. This may be any
HTML stuff - tags, text. I do next

Set newelem = doc.createElement("span")
newelem.innerHTML = "<a href=""test\test.htm"">1st</a>"

(code above is written in VB, but it does not matter)

but in saved HTML I have anchor with absolute path
<a href="file:///c:/test/test.htm">1st</a>

All I want is avoiding internal parsing of innerHTML. I found, that I
can
set anchor.href directly and it will not be parsed. But I need to
parse string with element and find "href" substring. This seem to be a
buggy way.
I prefer to do it with no workarounds, with some simple and bugs-free
way.
Is there any chance for that?

Try
var link = document.createElement('a');
a.href = 'test/test.html';
span.appendChild(a)
I don't see any reason to mix createElement with innerHTML assignment
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/