DOM Mutations
append
Inserts HTML into the DOM, inside the target element, after its last child.
append(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to assign
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-append
cable-ready:after-append
Reference
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/insertAdjacentElement
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ParentNode/append
graft
Reparent the target element and its children to a new parent element in the DOM.
Grafted elements are moved, not recreated. This means that any Stimulus controllers attached to an element will disconnect
and then immediatelyconnect
again, but their internal state remains intact.
graft(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
parent: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-graft
cable-ready:after-graft
Reference
inner_html
Sets the innerHTML of a DOM element.
inner_html(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to assign
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-inner-html
cable-ready:after-inner-html
Reference
insert_adjacent_html
Inserts HTML into the DOM relative to an element. Positions are as follows, defaulting to beforeend
:
beforebegin
: Before the target element itselfafterbegin
: Inside the target element, before its first childbeforeend
: Inside the target element, after its last childafterend
: After the target element itself
insert_adjacent_html(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to insert
position: String, # [beforeend] - the relative position to the DOM element (beforebegin, afterbegin, beforeend, afterend)
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-insert-adjacent-html
cable-ready:after-insert-adjacent-html
Reference
insert_adjacent_text
Inserts text into the DOM relative to an element. Positions are as follows, defaulting to beforeend
:
beforebegin
: Before the target element itselfafterbegin
: Inside the target element, before its first childbeforeend
: Inside the target element, after its last childafterend
: After the target element itself
insert_adjacent_text(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
position: String, # [beforeend] - the relative position to the DOM element (beforebegin, afterbegin, beforeend, afterend)
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
text: String, # [null] - the text to insert
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-insert-adjacent-text
cable-ready:after-insert-adjacent-text
Reference
morph
Fast lightweight DOM diffing/patching without a virtual DOM.
morph(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
children_only: Boolean, # [false] - indicates if only child nodes should be morphed... skipping the parent element
content: String, # reference - the content that is going to be used to morph
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to assign
permanent_attribute_name: String, # [null] - an attribute name that prevents elements from being updated i.e. "data-permanent"
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
When morphing an element with children_only: true
you need to make sure that the content you're providing to the html
value will result in a successful operation:
- it must have a single top-level container element with the same CSS selector as the target
- inside that container element is another element node, not a text node
Consider the following example of #foo
, a successful morphing candidate:
<div>
<%= render partial: "foo", locals: {message: "Am I the medium or the massage?"} %>
</div>
<div id="foo">
<span><%= message %></span>
</div>
If the <div id="foo">
was located in show.html.erb
the morph would not succeed because the top-level container that you're replacing would not be present in the replacement HTML.
If you need to render a collection of partials, you'll have to wrap the render method in a container because you cannot have the top-level container in each partial:
<div id="bar">
<%= render collection: @bars %>
</div>
<span><%= bar.message %></span>
morph(
children_only: true,
selector: "#bar",
html: "<div id=\"bar\">" + render(Bar.all) + "</div>"
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-morph
cable-ready:after-morph
As with all operations, you can modify the items in the event.detail
object inside of a before-morph
to change the parameters of how the operation will be executed.
The morph
operation's event.detail
object has a special key called content
which is a direct reference to the internal template
element's content
accessor holding the document fragment that will be morphed into your DOM.
This means that you can change the content which will soon be morphed into your page, but you cannot assign the content
to a new value. Doing so would remove the reference!
Instead, use the DOM API and mutate children inside of the content:
document.addEventListener('cable-ready:before-morph', event => {
event.detail.content.querySelector('#foo').setStyle('color', 'red')
})
Reference
- https://github.com/patrick-steele-idem/morphdom
- shouldMorph and didMorph callbacks
- Single Source of Truth
- Morph Sanity Checklist
- When to use a StimulusReflex morph vs. a CableReady operation
outer_html
Replaces a DOM element with new HTML.
outer_html(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to use as replacement
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-outer-html
cable-ready:after-outer-html
Reference
prepend
Inserts HTML into the DOM, inside the target element, before its first child.
prepend(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to assign
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-prepend
cable-ready:after-prepend
Reference
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/insertAdjacentElement
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ParentNode/prepend
remove
Removes an element from the DOM.
remove(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-remove
cable-ready:after-remove
Reference
replace
Replaces a DOM element with new HTML. This operation is an alias of outer_html
and has the same implementation.
replace(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
html: String, # [null] - the HTML to use as replacement
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-replace
cable-ready:after-replace
Reference
text_content
Sets the text content of a DOM element.
INFO
CableReady sets textContent
instead of innerText
. You can learn more here, or just move on with your day. ☀️
text_content(
batch: String, # [null] - add the operation to a named batch
cancel: Boolean, # [false] - cancel the operation (for use on client)
delay: Integer, # [0] - wait for n milliseconds before running
focus_selector: String, # [null] - string containing a CSS selector
select_all: Boolean, # [false] - operate on list of elements returned from selector
selector: String, # required - string containing a CSS selector or XPath expression
text: String, # [null] - the text to assign
xpath: Boolean # [false] - process the selector as an XPath expression
)
Life-cycle Callback Events
cable-ready:before-text-content
cable-ready:after-text-content