Document.registerElement()
Note:document.registerElement() is deprecated in favor of customElements.define().
Draft
This page is not complete.
The document.registerElement()
method registers a new custom element in the browser and returns a constructor for the new element.
Note: This is an experimental technology. The browser you use it in must support Web Components. See Enabling Web Components in Firefox.
Syntax
var constructor = document.registerElement(tag-name, options);
Parameters
- tag-name
- The name of the custom element. The name must contain a dash (-), for example
my-tag
. - options Optional
-
An object with properties prototype to base the custom element on, and extends, an existing tag to extend. Both of these are optional.
Example
Here is a very simple example:
var Mytag = document.registerElement('my-tag');
Now the new tag is registered in the browser. The Mytag
variable holds a constructor that you can use to create a my-tag
element in the document as follows:
document.body.appendChild(new Mytag());
This inserts an empty my-tag
element that will be visible if you use the browser's developer tools. It will not be visible if you use the browser's view source capability. And it won't be visible in the browser unless you add some content to the tag. Here is one way to add content to the new tag:
var mytag = document.getElementsByTagName("my-tag")[0]; mytag.textContent = "I am a my-tag element.";
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Custom Elements | Working Draft | Initial definition |
Browser compatibility
Feature | Chrome | Firefox (Gecko) | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | 35 | 31[1] | No support | 25 | No support |
Feature | Android | Firefox Mobile (Gecko) | IE Mobile | Opera Mobile | Safari Mobile |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | 4.4.4 | 31[1] | No support | 25 | No support |
[1] This API is implemented behind a preference.
See Also
License
© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/api/document/registerelement