Revision 822079 of Range.createContextualFragment()

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<p>The <strong><code>Range.createContextualFragment()</code></strong> method returns a {{domxref("DocumentFragment")}} by invoking the HTML fragment parsing algorithm or the XML&nbsp;fragment parsing algorithm with the start of the range (the <em>parent</em> of the selected node) as the context node. The HTML&nbsp;fragment parsing algorithm is used if the range belongs to a <code>Document</code> whose HTMLness bit is set. In the HTML case, if the context node would be <code>html</code>, for historical reasons the fragment parsing algorithm is invoked with <code>body</code> as the context instead.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax" name="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox">
<em>documentFragment</em> = <em>range</em>.createContextualFragment( <em>tagString</em> )
</pre>

<h3 id="Parameters" name="Parameters">Parameters</h3>

<dl>
 <dt><em>tagString</em></dt>
 <dd>Text that contains text and tags to be converted to a document fragment.</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Example" name="Example">Example</h2>

<pre class="brush: js">
var tagString = "&lt;div&gt;I am a div node&lt;/div&gt;";
var range = document.createRange();
// make the parent of the first div in the document becomes the context node
range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
var documentFragment = range.createContextualFragment(tagString);
document.body.appendChild(documentFragment);
</pre>

<h2 id="Specification" name="Specification">Specification</h2>

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 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM Parsing', '#extensions-to-the-range-interface', 'Range.createContextualFragment()')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM Parsing')}}</td>
   <td>Initial specification.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

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  <tr>
   <th>Feature</th>
   <th>Chrome</th>
   <th>Firefox (Gecko)</th>
   <th>Internet Explorer</th>
   <th>Opera</th>
   <th>Safari</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Basic support</td>
   <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
   <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
   <td>11</td>
   <td>15.0</td>
   <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
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 </tbody>
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   <th>Feature</th>
   <th>Android</th>
   <th>Firefox Mobile (Gecko)</th>
   <th>IE Mobile</th>
   <th>Opera Mobile</th>
   <th>Safari Mobile</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Basic support</td>
   <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
   <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
   <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
   <td>15.0</td>
   <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>
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<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/DOM/DOM_Reference" title="/en-US/docs/DOM/DOM_Reference">The DOM interfaces index</a></li>
</ul>