Ext way to create DOM elements, or minimalist alternative to jQuery?

Question

I have a Sencha Touch application, and I want to create and append to the DOM dynamically for some custom HTML panels.

I really want to be able to do this:

$('<div><p>Stuff</p></div>')[0] to create DOM elements, but I can't find any such alternative in ExtJS. Does this sort of "create this big snippet" syntax exist in ExtJS, or is there a smaller library alternative that doesn't require that I pull in all of jQuery?

It also feels a little silly to mix two major frameworks.

Answer 1

You can just do it the same way that jQuery does it ; create an element and set the innerHTML property to the HTML code, and get the children of the element:

var e = document.createElement('DIV');
e.innerHTML = '<div><p>Stuff</p></div>';
var div = e.childNodes[0];

Answer 2

You should just use jQuery. It's not that big.