appendChild method

• 01/27/2012
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[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Appends an element as a child to the object.

Syntax

IHTMLDOMNode retVal = object.appendChild(newChild);

Standards information

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification, Section 1.4

Parameters

• newChild [in]
  Type: IHTMLDOMNode

  Pointer to an IHTMLDOMNode interface that specifies the element to append.

Remarks

The appendChild method appends elements to the end of the childNodes collection.

Windows Internet Explorer 9. Exceptions are only supported when webpages are displayed in IE9 Standards mode.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, This method now applies to the attribute object.

See also

Reference

cloneNode

insertBefore

Conceptual

About the W3C Document Object Model

Build date: 1/26/2012