Creating Controls Imperatively
In the previous section, I created an instance of the DatePicker control declaratively. I declared the control in the HTML markup of the page.
As an alternative to creating a WinJS control declaratively, you can also create a control imperatively. In other words, you can create the control entirely in your JavaScript code.
Consider the page in Listing 4.3. It contains a DIV element with an id of dateBirthday. This DIV element does not have a data-win-control attribute.
LISTING 4.3 Creating a WinJS Control Imperatively (controlImperative\controlImperative.html)
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Chapter04</title> <!-- WinJS references --> <link
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