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appendChild

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The appendChild method inserts the specified node into the list of nodes on the current document.

Syntax

element.appendChild(newChild)
 

Parameters

newChild is a node.

Example

// puts the new, empty paragraph at the end // of the document p = document.createElement("p"); element.appendChild(p);

Notes

appendChild is one of the fundamental methods of web programming using the DOM. The appendChild method inserts a new node into the DOM structure of the HTML document, and is the second part of the one-two, create-and-append process so central to building web pages programmatically. The example above illustrates this basic process.

Specification

appendChild