creates a html content using a provided string

string2dom

ar str2DOMElement = function(html) {
   var wrapMap = {
        option: [ 1, "<select multiple='multiple'>", "</select>" ],
        legend: [ 1, "<fieldset>", "</fieldset>" ],
        area: [ 1, "<map>", "</map>" ],
        param: [ 1, "<object>", "</object>" ],
        thead: [ 1, "<table>", "</table>" ],
        tr: [ 2, "<table><tbody>", "</tbody></table>" ],
        col: [ 2, "<table><tbody></tbody><colgroup>", "</colgroup></table>" ],
        td: [ 3, "<table><tbody><tr>", "</tr></tbody></table>" ],
        body: [0, "", ""],
        _default: [ 1, "<div>", "</div>"  ]
    };
    wrapMap.optgroup = wrapMap.option;
    wrapMap.tbody = wrapMap.tfoot = wrapMap.colgroup = wrapMap.caption = wrapMap.thead;
    wrapMap.th = wrapMap.td;
    var match = /<\s*\w.*?>/g.exec(html);
    var element = document.createElement('div');
    if(match != null) {
        var tag = match[0].replace(/</g, '').replace(/>/g, '').split(' ')[0];
        if(tag.toLowerCase() === 'body') {
            var dom = document.implementation.createDocument('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'html', null);
            var body = document.createElement("body");
            // keeping the attributes
            element.innerHTML = html.replace(/<body/g, '<div').replace(/<\/body>/g, '</div>');
            var attrs = element.firstChild.attributes;
            body.innerHTML = html;
            for(var i=0; i<attrs.length; i++) {
                body.setAttribute(attrs[i].name, attrs[i].value);
            }
            return body;
        } else {
            var map = wrapMap[tag] || wrapMap._default, element;
            html = map[1] + html + map[2];
            element.innerHTML = html;
            // Descend through wrappers to the right content
            var j = map[0]+1;
            while(j--) {
                element = element.lastChild;
            }
        }
    } else {
        element.innerHTML = html;
        element = element.lastChild;
    }
    return element;
}