Is there any way to find an element in a documentFragment?

Question

var oFra = document.createDocumentFragment();
// oFra.[add elements];
document.createElement("div").id="myId";
oFra.getElementById("myId"); //not in FF

How can I get "myId" before attaching fragment to document?

Answer 1

What about:

var oFra = document.createDocumentFragment();
var myDiv = document.createElement("div");
myDiv.id="myId";
oFra.appendChild(myDiv);
oFra.getElementById("myId"); //not in FF

Unless you've added the the created div to your document fragment I'm not sure why getElementById would find it?

--edit

If you're willing to roll your own getElementById function then you ought to be able to get the reference you're after, because this code works:

var oFra = document.createDocumentFragment();
var myDiv = document.createElement("div");
myDiv.id = "myId";
oFra.appendChild(myDiv);
if (oFra.hasChildNodes()) {
    var i=0;
    var myEl;
    var children = oFra.childNodes;
    for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
        if (children[i].id == "myId") {
            myEl = children[i];
        }
    }
}
window.alert(myEl.id);