Adding Things
Although Dart supports the usual Element and Node classes for manipulating the DOM, Dart goes out of its way to allow us to stick to just an Element class. For just about any HTML element, Dart defines a convenience constructor. To create a <div>, for instance, there is the DivElement constructor. Coupled with text and innerHtml properties, it’s easy to get started with DOM elements.
| dom/adding.dart | |
| | var gallery = new DivElement(); |
| | gallery.text = 'Welcome to the Gallery'; |
For a more general purpose way to create a new element in Dart, we can use the handy html named constructor for Element.
| | var gallery = new Element.html('<div id="gallery">'); |
The Element.html() named constructor does not restrict us to creating a ...
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