Make some random strings and give them a random color… a friend of mine showed a work in progress forked codepen – so I created a golfed version/variation…
When casting a dom node to a string, you’ll get a class name like this:
document.createElement('div')+''
// '[object HTMLDivElement]'
// you can cast to a string with `toString` if
// you want things to be more readable
document.createElement('section').toString()
// '[object HTMLElement]'
document.createElement('input')+''
// '[object HTMLInputElement]'
When you try to create something with an unknown tagName you’ll end up with:
document.createElement('banana')+''
// '[object HTMLUnknownElement]'
So, testing for the presence of the string Unknown is an easy way to check if a tagName is valid in a given browser. This is the perfect kind of thing to memoize:
const tags ={}
const isTag = tag =>{
if(tags[tag]!=null){
// already calculated
console.log('loking up: ', tag, tags[tag]);
return tags[tag]
}
const result =!/Unknown/.test(document.createElement(tag)+'')