Name
Node.appendChild( ) — insert a node as the last child of this node
Availability
DOM Level 1 Core
Synopsis
Node appendChild(Node newChild)
throws DOMException;Arguments
-
newChild The node to be inserted into the document. If the node is a DocumentFragment, it is not directly inserted, but each of its children are.
Returns
The node that was added.
Throws
This method may throw a DOMException with one of the following
code values in the following circumstances:
-
HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR The node does not allow children, or it does not allow children of the specified type, or
newChildis an ancestor of this node (or is this node itself ).-
WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR The
ownerDocumentproperty ofnewChildis not the same as theownerDocumentproperty of this node.-
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR This node is read-only and does not allow children to be appended, or the node being appended is already part of the document tree and its parent is read-only and does not allow children to be removed.
Description
This method adds the node newChild to the
document, inserting it as the last child of this node. If
newChild is already in the document tree,
it is removed from the tree and then reinserted at its new location.
If newChild is a DocumentFragment node, it
is not inserted itself; instead, all its children are appended, in
order, to the end of this node’s
childNodes[] array. Note that a node from (or
created by) one document cannot be inserted into a different
document. That is, the ownerDocument property ...