Problem
I recently had an html string that needed to be added to a DOM object. At first I had something like this:
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$field_div = $dom->createElement(“div”, $field);
$dom->appendChild($field_div);
Where $field was an html string. This produced a div with the html printed out as text.
Solution
Stack overflow is just the best website ever created for developers. The solution is to use DOM->createDocumentFragment. So the new code looked like:
$field_html = $dom->createDocumentFragment(); // create fragment
$field_html->appendXML($field);
$field_div = $dom->createElement(“div”);
$field_div->appendChild($field_html);
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2255158/how-do-i-insert-html-into-a-php-dom-object
keywords: php domnode create node from html string