I currently have a dom element that is a result of a custom katex render. It is generated like this: var dom_element = document.createElement("p") dom_element.innerHTML = "some text that contain latex" renderMathInElement(dom_element) At this point dom_element contains the html that I would like …

A widget is almost certainly not the right tool for this. A widget should not be accessing any other information other than what is fed to it explicitly via args and should then only be concerned about what is going on inside itself and at most send actions back up. It should not be involved in th…

My use case is the following: I am using the tag banners component and was editing it’s source. Basically, some of the tag descriptions on my website include latex. And I want to render them properly on the banner. I wanted to add a script to the “Head” section in the customize theme, instead of e…

Converting a dom element to virtual-dom in widgets

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merefield (Robert) September 7, 2022, 3:47pm 4

You can’t guarantee when a widget or a component is loaded. However you can do the work in a component event like didInsertElement.

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Converting a dom element to virtual-dom in widgets

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