Skip to content

DEV Community

append VS appendChild

Abdulqudus Abubakre on April 17, 2020

This is the first post in the this vs that series. A series aimed at comparing two often confusing terms, methods, objects, definition or anything ...

Read full post

Ronak Jethwa • May 24 '20

Nice one! Few more suggestions for the continuation of the series!

1. Call vs Apply
2. Prototype vs __proto__
3. Map vs Set
4. .forEach vs .map on Arrays
5. for...of vs for...in

Abdulqudus Abubakre • May 24 '20

Sure, will do that. Thanks

Ronak Jethwa • May 24 '20 • Edited

happy to contribute by writing one if you need :)

Rashid Enahora • Oct 20 '24

Thank you sir!!! That was very clear and concise!!!

Tulsi Prasad • Apr 18 '20

Very consice and clear explanation, thanks!

Abdulqudus Abubakre • Apr 18 '20

Glad I could help

Frupreneur • Apr 3 '22

"In cases where you can use .appendChild, you can use .append but not vice versa."

well if you do need that return value, appendChild does the job while .append doesnt

Ryan Zayne • Jul 21 '24

Would anyone ever need that return value tho?

Mao • Jan 27 '25 • Edited

There's a lot of instances where you need the return value, if you need to reference it for a webapp / keep it somewhere / change its properties

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Apr 18 '20

It would be nice if you also compare the speed / efficiency.

Aliyu Abubakar • Apr 18 '20

This is straightforward

Abdulqudus Abubakre • Apr 18 '20

Thanks man

mmestiyak • Oct 18 '20

Thanks man!

Kelsie Paige • Jul 6 '23

Here’s the light bulb moment I’ve been looking for. You nailed it in such a clean and concise way that I could understand as I read and didn’t have to reread x10 just to sort of get the concept. That’s gold!

mohammadparsa-javidi • Jan 22 '23

Perfect👌

Ali-alterawi • Apr 20 '23

thank you

Anthonia Okafor • Apr 18 '20

Well explained

Abdulqudus Abubakre • Apr 18 '20

Thanks Anthonia

dAMi • Apr 18 '20

This is helpful, thanks boss!

Md. Monirul Islam • May 16 '20

Thanks man!

Ben Halpern • Apr 17 '20

Very clear guide

Abdulqudus Abubakre • Apr 17 '20

Thanks a lot Ben :)

Abdelrahman Hassan • Jan 23 '21

Excellent explanation

Navin • Oct 9 '20

Very well explained !!

MLM • May 25 '22

I UNDERSTAND, FINALLY! New to JavaScript and DOM Manipulation, this was perfect, clear, concise! Thank you!

jamaicayancy • Jan 21 '23

This was perfect. Thanks!