Baseline Widely available
The Element.append()
method inserts a set of Node
objects or strings after the last child of the Element
. Strings are inserted as equivalent Text
nodes.
Differences from Node.appendChild()
:
Element.append()
allows you to also append strings, whereas Node.appendChild()
only accepts Node
objects.Element.append()
has no return value, whereas Node.appendChild()
returns the appended Node
object.Element.append()
can append several nodes and strings, whereas Node.appendChild()
can only append one node.append(param1)
append(param1, param2)
append(param1, param2, /* â¦, */ paramN)
Parameters
param1
, â¦, paramN
A set of Node
objects or strings to insert.
None (undefined
).
HierarchyRequestError
DOMException
Thrown when the node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy.
let div = document.createElement("div");
let p = document.createElement("p");
div.append(p);
console.log(div.childNodes); // NodeList [ <p> ]
Appending text
let div = document.createElement("div");
div.append("Some text");
console.log(div.textContent); // "Some text"
Appending an element and text
let div = document.createElement("div");
let p = document.createElement("p");
div.append("Some text", p);
console.log(div.childNodes); // NodeList [ #text "Some text", <p> ]
The append method is unscopable
The append()
method is not scoped into the with
statement. See Symbol.unscopables
for more information.
let div = document.createElement("div");
with (div) {
append("foo");
}
// ReferenceError: append is not defined
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