Name
Document.createElement( ): create a new Element node â DOM Level 1 Core:
Synopsis
Element createElement(StringtagName
)
throws DOMException;
Arguments
-
tagName
The tag name of the Element to be created. Since HTML tags are case-insensitive, you may use any capitalization for HTML tag names. XML tag names are case-sensitive.
Returns
A newly created Element node with the specified tag name.
Throws
This method throws a DOMException with a code
of INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
if
tagName
contains an illegal
character.
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