Question

I’d like to do something like this:

dojo.place(this.message.subject, this.apSubject);

But it throw exception in Dojo 1.7 (I’m completely new to Dojo so I don’t know if the same problem is under older versions)

To get it work I did:

dojo.place('<span>' + this.message.subject + '</span>', this.apSubject);

It looks like Dojo parse the first parameter of dojo.place and if there is no HTML it throw exception.

How to use it without spans?

Answer 1

Check the docs, In particular, the description of what the first argument receives:

dojo.place(node, refNode, pos)

node

Can be a String or a DOM node. If it is a string starting with “<”, it is assumed to be an HTML fragment, which will be created. Otherwise it is assumed to be an id of a DOM node.

Therefore, one things you can do is create a text node with the text you want

dojo.place( document.createTextNode(this.message.subject), this.apSubject)

And another thing you could try would be setting the innerHTML instead of using dojo.place:

this.apSubject.innerHTML = this.message.subject;

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BTW, In my humble opinion, dojo.place is normaly kind of annoying to use. However, since I am not often doing this kind of DOM manipulation, I don’t really know what are the alternatives people prefer to use.