/documentation/appframework/$.create.md

#$.create(type,[params])

```

$.create - a faster alertnative to $("this is some text");

```

##Example

```
$.create("div",{id:"main",innerHTML:"this is some text"});
$.create("this is some text");

```


##Parameters

```
DOM                           String
properties                    [Object]

```

##Returns

```
Object                        Returns an appframework object
```

##Detail

$.create(type,[params]) is new for 2.0.  It is a faster, and sometimes "safter" way to create DOM Nodes.

$.create allows you to bypass logic inside the $() engine and jump right to element creation.  It returns an App Framework collection.

$.create works two ways.
<ol>
    <li>Parse a string and return the DOM elements (slower)</li>
    <li>Create the element using document.createElement and setting properties (faster)</li>
</ol>

Below are two examples that provide the same node.  The first is faster.

```
var faster=$.create("div",{id:"test",html:"Test HTML"})

var slower=$.create(" < div id='test'>Test HTML< /div> ");
```