Creating a HTMLdivElement object in Javascript

Question

Trying to turn a String into a HTMLDivElement object. I know how to create a string, I am just unsure how to create the HTMLDivElement.

For example, if I wanted to turn <div id="cardId" class="card c9"></div>

It would also be good to really understand what a HTMLDivElementObject is too.

EDIT:

I also know that there are Universal Attributes such as id(string), style(object), title(string) and className(string).

Below is my function and method. As you can see I try to create the toElement method. What I need is the method to return an HTMLDivElement object representing the Card. The example of what needs to be returned is as above <div id="cardId" class="card c9"></div> .

var cardProto = {
// creates the HTML string representing this element
    "toString": function (){
        var s = this.card.getSuit(), r = this.card.getRank();
        var t = "<div class=\"card ";
        t += s !== undefined ? s + r : "down";
        t += "\" id=\""+ this.id + "\"></div>\n";
        return t;
    },

    "toElement": function () {


    }
};

Answer 1

"toElement": function () {
  var dummy = document.createElement("div");
  dummy.innerHTML = this.toString();
  return dummy.children[0];
}

Answer 2

Figured it out guys. to set the Id, I needed to use .id, and .className for the class.

"toElement": function () {

    var s = this.card.getSuit(), r = this.card.getRank();

    var div = document.createElement('div');
    div.id = 'cardId';
    div.className = "card " +s+r;

    return div;

}

Answer 3

Assuming that you want to convert a string into an element, you can use RegEx to do this:

"toElement": function () {
    var string = '<div id="cardId" class="card c9"></div>'

    var e = /<(.+?)\s/g.exec(string)[1];
    var id = /id="(.+?)"/g.exec(string)[1];
    var cls = /class="(.+?)"/g.exec(string)[1];
    var element = document.createElement(e);
    element.hash = id;
    element.className = cls;
}