javascript - Executing <script> elements inserted with .innerHTML

Question

I've got a script that inserts some content into an element using innerHTML.

The content could for example be:

<script type="text/javascript">alert('test');</script>
<strong>test</strong>

Problem is that the code inside the <script> tag doesn't get executed. I googled it a bit but there were no apparent solutions. If I inserted the content using jQuery $(element).append(content);the script parts got eval'd before being injected into the DOM.

Has anyone got a snippet of code that executes all the <script> elements? The jQuery code was a bit complex so I couldn't really figure out how it was done.

Edit:

By peeking into the jQuery code I've managed to figure out how jQuery does it, which resulted in the following code:

Demo:
<div id="element"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function insertAndExecute(id, text)
  {
    domelement = document.getElementById(id);
    domelement.innerHTML = text;
    var scripts = [];

    ret = domelement.childNodes;
    for ( var i = 0; ret[i]; i++ ) {
      if ( scripts && nodeName( ret[i], "script" ) && (!ret[i].type || ret[i].type.toLowerCase() === "text/javascript") ) {
            scripts.push( ret[i].parentNode ? ret[i].parentNode.removeChild( ret[i] ) : ret[i] );
        }
    }

    for(script in scripts)
    {
      evalScript(scripts[script]);
    }
  }
  function nodeName( elem, name ) {
    return elem.nodeName && elem.nodeName.toUpperCase() === name.toUpperCase();
  }
  function evalScript( elem ) {
    data = ( elem.text || elem.textContent || elem.innerHTML || "" );

    var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.documentElement,
    script = document.createElement("script");
    script.type = "text/javascript";
    script.appendChild( document.createTextNode( data ) );
    head.insertBefore( script, head.firstChild );
    head.removeChild( script );

    if ( elem.parentNode ) {
        elem.parentNode.removeChild( elem );
    }
  }

  insertAndExecute("element", "<scri"+"pt type='text/javascript'>document.write('This text should appear as well.')</scr"+"ipt><strong>this text should also be inserted.</strong>");
</script>

Answer 1

Simplified ES6 version of @joshcomley's answer with an example.

No JQuery, No library, No eval, No DOM change, Just pure Javascript.

http://plnkr.co/edit/MMegiu?p=preview

var setInnerHTML = function(elm, html) {
  elm.innerHTML = html;
  Array.from(elm.querySelectorAll("script")).forEach( oldScript => {
    const newScript = document.createElement("script");
    Array.from(oldScript.attributes)
      .forEach( attr => newScript.setAttribute(attr.name, attr.value) );
    newScript.appendChild(document.createTextNode(oldScript.innerHTML));
    oldScript.parentNode.replaceChild(newScript, oldScript);
  });
}

Usage

$0.innerHTML = HTML;    // does *NOT* run <script> tags in HTML
setInnerHTML($0, HTML); // does run <script> tags in HTML