jQuery append vs appendChild

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Here s some sample code   function addTextNode        var newtext   document createTextNode   Some text added dynamically          var para   document getElementById  p1        para appendChild newtext           p1   append  HI         lt div style  border  1px solid red  gt       lt p id  p1  gt First line of paragraph  lt br   gt  lt  p gt   lt  div gt    What is the difference between append   and appendChild    Any real time scenarios

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append is a jQuery method to append some content or HTML to an element       example   append  Some text or HTML      appendChild is a pure DOM method for adding a child element   document getElementById  example   appendChild newElement

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appendChild is a pure javascript method where as append is a jQuery method

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The main difference is that appendChild is a DOM method and append is a jQuery method  The second one uses the first as you can see on jQuery source code  append  function         return this domManip arguments  true  function  elem             if   this nodeType     1    this nodeType     11    this nodeType     9                 this appendChild  elem                           If you re using jQuery library on your project  you ll be safe always using append when adding elements to the page

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appendChild is a DOM vanilla-js function   append is a jQuery function   They each have their own quirks

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I know this is an old and answered question and I m not looking for votes I just want to add an extra little thing that I think might help newcomers   yes appendChild is a DOM method and append is JQuery method but practically the key difference is that appendChild takes a node as a parameter by that I mean if you want to add an empty paragraph to the DOM you need to create that p element first   var p   document createElement  p    then you can add it to the DOM whereas JQuery append creates that node for you and adds it to the DOM right away whether it s a text element or an html element or a combination      p   append   lt span gt  I have been appended  lt  span gt

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No longer now append is a method in JavaScript MDN documentation on append method Quoting MDN  The ParentNode append method inserts a set of Node objects or DOMString objects after the last child of the ParentNode  DOMString objects are inserted as equivalent Text nodes   This is not supported by IE and Edge but supported by Chrome 54    Firefox 49   and Opera 39    The JavaScript s append is similar to jQuery s append  You can pass multiple arguments   x000D   x000D  var elm   document getElementById  div1    elm append document createElement  p   document createElement  span   document createElement  div     console log elm innerHTML   x000D   lt div id  div1  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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The JavaScript appendchild method can be use to append an item to another element  The jQuery Append element does the same work but certainly in less number of lines      Let us take an example to Append an item in a list    a  With JavaScript  var n  document createElement  LI                       Create a  lt li gt  node var tn   document createTextNode  JavaScript            Create a text node n appendChild tn                                        Append the text to  lt li gt  document getElementById  myList   appendChild n       b  With jQuery      myList   append   lt li gt jQuery lt  li gt

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