How to create “svg” object without appending it?

Question

Consider the following code:

var svg = d3.select(\'#somediv\').append(\"svg\").attr(\"width\", w).attr(\"height\", h);

I would like to refa

Answer 1

To save a little bit of time you can use d3.ns.prefix.svg

var svg = document.createElementNS(d3.ns.prefix.svg, 'svg');