How can I determine if a dynamically-created DOM element has been added to the DOM?

Question

According to spec, only the BODY and FRAMESET elements provide an \"onload\" event to attach to, but I would like to know when a dynamically-create

Answer 1

Here is another solution to the problem extracted from the jQuery code. The following function can be used to check if a node is attached to the DOM or if it is "disconnected".

function isDisconnected( node ) {
    return !node || !node.parentNode || node.parentNode.nodeType === 11;
}

A nodeType === 11 defines a DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, which is a node not connected to the document object.

For further information see the following article by John Resig: http://ejohn.org/blog/dom-documentfragments/