From 2a116c38a315f9405f88d6ea20a49493b107eba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Schmidt <oyejorge@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:14:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] isHtmlString helper function

---
 src/tom-select.ts | 3 ++-
 src/vanilla.ts    | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tom-select.ts b/src/tom-select.ts
index 7f0475c8..cd95a4d5 100644
--- a/src/tom-select.ts
+++ b/src/tom-select.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
 
 import {
 	getDom,
+	isHtmlString,
 	escapeQuery,
 	triggerEvent,
 	applyCSS,
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ export default class TomSelect extends MicroPlugin(MicroEvent){
 
 
 		// default controlInput
-		if( typeof settings.controlInput === 'string' && settings.controlInput.indexOf('<') > -1 ){
+		if( isHtmlString(settings.controlInput) ){
 			control_input		= getDom(settings.controlInput ) as HTMLInputElement;
 
 			// set attributes
diff --git a/src/vanilla.ts b/src/vanilla.ts
index 9ef1ab58..20e82825 100644
--- a/src/vanilla.ts
+++ b/src/vanilla.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export const getDom = ( query:any ):HTMLElement => {
 		return query;
 	}
 
-	if( query.indexOf('<') > -1 ){
+	if( isHtmlString(query) ){
 		let div = document.createElement('div');
 		div.innerHTML = query.trim(); // Never return a text node of whitespace as the result
 		return div.firstChild as HTMLElement;
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ export const getDom = ( query:any ):HTMLElement => {
 	return document.querySelector(query);
 };
 
+export const isHtmlString = (arg:any): boolean => {
+	if( typeof arg === 'string' && arg.indexOf('<') > -1 ){
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
 export const escapeQuery = (query:string):string => {
 	return query.replace(/['"\\]/g, '\\$&');
 }