Laconic - Laconic Is A Lightweight Approach To Generating DOM Content In JavaScript

Laconic is a lightweight approach to generating DOM content in JavaScript. The source code is available on GitHub.  Consider the code necessary to produce a simple table hierarchy with the standard DOM API:


This code is beyond verbose, which makes determining the resulting hierarchy difficult. Let's take a look at the laconic way to generate the same table:


Laconic adds a method to the $.el namespace for all known HTML tags. These methods should be invoked with a variable length list of child elements or strings. An optional attributes object may be passed as the first argument. For example:


will produce the following structure:


You can even register your own custom 'tags' that define a particular hierarchy of known elements. You just need to provide a name for your tag, and a function that appends content to 'this', which is a reference to the root node of the tag. For example:


Once you've registered a tag, you can start inserting it:


This particular invocation will produce the following structure:




Requirements: None
Demo: http://joestelmach.github.com/laconic/
License: MIT License

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