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Eran Or
Eran Or

Reputation: 1532

How to create new instance of an extended class of custom elements

I'm trying the example from google developer site and I'm getting Error: "TypeError: Illegal constructor. What's wrong and How to fix it?

class FancyButton extends HTMLButtonElement {
  constructor() {
    super(); // always call super() first in the ctor.
    this.addEventListener('click', e => this.drawRipple(e.offsetX,e.offsetY));
  }

  // Material design ripple animation.
  drawRipple(x, y) {
    let div = document.createElement('div');
    div.classList.add('ripple');
    this.appendChild(div);
    //    div.style.top = `${y - div.clientHeight/2}px`;
    //    div.style.left = `${x - div.clientWidth/2}px`;
    div.style.backgroundColor = 'currentColor';
    div.classList.add('run');
    div.addEventListener('transitionend', e => div.remove());
  }
}

customElements.define('fancy-button', FancyButton, {extends: 'button'});
let button = new FancyButton();
button.textContent = 'Fancy button!';
button.disabled = true;

Upvotes: 10

Views: 9707

Answers (2)

bortunac
bortunac

Reputation: 4828

class F_BTN extends HTMLButtonElement{
    constructor(){
        super(); // must call constructor from parent class
        this.addEventListener(...);
        .... // etc.
     }
}

customElements.define("f-btn",F_BTN,{extends:'button'});

use inline:

<body>  ....  <f-btn>BTN_NAME</f-btn>  ...  </body>

or create append from javascript

var elm = new F_BTN(...options); 
// F_BTN = customElements.get('f-btn') // in case F_BTN is out of scope

The problem is elm = document.createElement('f-btn') doesn't work.

That is why I made my custom create_element function _E

_E = function (name, html) {
  var $;
  switch (true) {
    case (name === '' || !name):  // _E()  -- a div
        {
            $ = document.createElement('div');
        }
        break; 
    case (!name.indexOf('<')):  // _E('<h1><i>abc</i><b>A</b></h1>')  -- sub_dom
        {
            $ = document.createElement('div');
            $.innerHTML = name;
            $ = $.firstElementChild;
        }
        break;
    default:
        var c = window.customElements.get(name);
        if(c){ 
          $ = new c();   // _E('f-btn')  -- customElement
        } else {
          $ = document.createElement(name); // _E('button')  -- htmlElement
        }   
  }      
  if (html) $.innerHTML = html;
  return $;
};

var elm1 = _E('f-btn'); parent.appendChild(elm1);

Upvotes: 7

Supersharp
Supersharp

Reputation: 31209

Blink, the web engine that currently implements Custom Element v1 (in Chrome v53+ for example) only supports autonomous custom elements: see open Blink bug.

If you want to define customized built-in elements (i.e. <button> extension), you'll need to use a polyfill like the one from Web Reflection.

Alternatly, you can still use the Custom Element v0 syntax (document.registerElement).

Update #3

Since october 2018, they work natively with Chrome 67+ and Firefox 63+ :-)

Upvotes: 17

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