concat.js 
Chainable DOM Builder
How to use
$C(parentNode, replace, direct)
...
.end();
parentNode
is a DOM element to put the result into.
replace
is a boolean value indicates that parentNode
's content should be
replaced with newly built content (newly built content will be appended to the
current one when replace
is coerced to false
).
direct
indicates that everything should be rendered directly to parentNode
right away (skipping documentFragment creation).
Return value is the result's documentFragment in case parentNode
is not
passed. When parentNode
is passed, return value is undefined.
Usage example
var tmp = 0;
$C(document.body)
.div({'class': 'ololo', 'style': 'background-color: red; height: 100px;'})
.act(function() {
this.addEventListener('click', function() { alert(5555); });
})
.ul()
.repeat(2)
.li()
.text('aaa')
.end(4)
.repeat(3)
.span({'style': function() { return 'border: 1px solid green;'}})
.text(function(index) {
return index + ' ' + Math.random();
})
.end()
.end()
.repeat(function() { return ++tmp <= 5; })
.p()
.text(function(index) { return index + ' ' + tmp; })
.end()
.end()
.div()
.text('hello')
.text('<br>', true)
.text('world')
.end()
.test(1 === 1)
.elem('section')
.text('ololo')
.end()
.end()
.test(function() { return false; })
.text('alala')
.end()
.each([9, 8, 7])
.p()
.text(function(item, index, arr) {
return index + ' ' + item;
})
.repeat(2)
.div()
.text(function(index) { return index; })
.end()
.end()
.div()
.text(function(item, index, arr) { return index + ' ' + item; })
.end(3)
.choose()
.when(false).text('1111').end()
.when(true).text('2222').end()
.otherwise().text('3333').end()
.end()
.end();
Will append the following to <body>
tag:
<div class="ololo" style="background-color: red; height: 100px;">
<ul>
<li>aaa</li>
<li>aaa</li>
</ul>
</div>
<span style="border: 1px solid green;">0 0.3901003133505583</span>
<span style="border: 1px solid green;">1 0.19187432969920337</span>
<span style="border: 1px solid green;">2 0.0640524192713201</span>
<p>0 1</p>
<p>1 2</p>
<p>2 3</p>
<p>3 4</p>
<p>4 5</p>
<div>
hello
<br>
world
</div>
<section>ololo</section>
<p>
0 9
<div>0</div>
<div>1</div>
<div>0 9</div>
</p>
<p>
1 8
<div>0</div>
<div>1</div>
<div>1 8</div>
</p>
<p>
2 7
<div>0</div>
<div>1</div>
<div>2 7</div>
</p>
2222
Define custom actions
You can define custom actions for build process. For example, if you use
jQuery, you can define an action for event handlers binding like below:
$C.define('on', function(item, index, arr, args) {
$.fn.on.apply($(this), args);
});
$C(document.body)
.div()
.on('click', function(e) { alert(123); })
.on('mousemove', function(e) { alert(345); })
.text('I am clickable and mousemoveable')
.end(2);
Memorize results
On every step of DOM building, we can memorize nodes and other data. Memorized
items are being put into $C.mem
dictionary. $C.mem
dictionary is initially
empty, but it is shared between different $C()
calls. You may want to reset
this dictionary manually like $C.mem = {}
.
$C(document.body)
.div()
.mem('helloDiv')
.text('hello')
.end()
.each([11, 22])
.span()
.mem(function(item, index, arr) {
return 'each' + index;
}, function(item, index, arr) {
return index + ' ' + item + ' ' + this.tagName.toLowerCase();
})
.end()
.end()
.end();
In this example $C.mem
will be:
{helloDiv: <div>hello</div>, each0: '0 11 span', each1: '1 22 span'}
Another example (with $C.mem
resetting):
$C.mem = {aa: 123, bb: 234};
$C(document.body)
.div()
.mem('aa')
.text('hello')
.end()
.end();
And $C.mem
will be:
{aa: <div>hello</div>, bb: 234}