Range: createContextualFragment() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The Range.createContextualFragment() method returns a DocumentFragment by invoking the HTML fragment parsing algorithm or the XML fragment parsing algorithm with the start of the range (the parent of the selected node) as the context node. The HTML fragment parsing algorithm is used if the range belongs to a Document whose HTMLness bit is set. In the HTML case, if the context node would be html, for historical reasons the fragment parsing algorithm is invoked with body as the context instead.

Syntax

js
createContextualFragment(tagString)

Parameters

tagString

Text that contains text and tags to be converted to a document fragment.

Return value

A DocumentFragment object.

Examples

js
const tagString = "<div>I am a div node</div>";
const range = document.createRange();

// Make the parent of the first div in the document become the context node
range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
const documentFragment = range.createContextualFragment(tagString);
document.body.appendChild(documentFragment);

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-range-createcontextualfragment

Browser compatibility

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See also