2nd arg of document.createElement should be an object

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 56)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This feature adds a dictionary as a second argument for document.createElement. The dictionary 'is' member is used to set custom element attribute. For now both syntaxes will be supported. Later on after v1 custom elements (https://www.chromestatus.com/features/4696261944934400) are shipped the string argument will be deprecated.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-document-createelement
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=637353

Docs: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-document-createelement

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