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Adding a New Element

Understand how to dynamically add new elements to a web page by creating elements, setting their properties, and inserting them into the DOM using JavaScript methods like createElement and appendChild.

Adding a new element to a web page can be broken into three steps:

  • Create the new element
  • Set element properties
  • Insert the new element in the DOM

For example, suppose you want to add the language “Python” to the list of languages on our page. ...