Add a callback with just created element about van

[Tao-VanJS]

For your specific example, I think you can simply have:

return div(() => el.val = a({self: el}, /* some text */),
  ...
)

That said, it's advised to avoid setting the value of the state to a DOM element, see https://vanjs.org/advanced#why-not-dom-valued-states.

[RuthgerD]

My hopefully legitimate use case is scrolling the container from within a callback that is defined within the body of the container I want to scroll, but your suggestion actually fits nicely I think; I am not too literate in all the javascript tricks! thanks :)