Name
Document.createElement( ) — create a new Element node
Availability
DOM Level 1 Core
Synopsis
Element createElement(String tagName)
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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