turn text into node code example

Example 1: convert a string to html element in js

/**
 * Convert a template string into HTML DOM nodes
 * @param  {String} str The template string
 * @return {Node}       The template HTML
 */
var stringToHTML = function (str) {
	var parser = new DOMParser();
	var doc = parser.parseFromString(str, 'text/html');
	return doc.body;
};

Example 2: js string to node

function createElementFromHTML(htmlString) {
  var div = document.createElement('div');
  div.innerHTML = htmlString.trim();

  // Change this to div.childNodes to support multiple top-level nodes
  return div.firstChild; 
}