Appending Elements

Learn how to insert new elements into existing elements with D3.

In some cases, we may need to add new elements to the document. That is completely possible with selections. Let’s say we want to add a <p> element with D3. We can append an element by chaining the append() method on the selection.

This method is a part of the D3 selection library. Selection objects come with a method called append(). We can directly chain this function after selecting an element.

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