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Adding New Child Elements to the Document

Explore how to add new child elements to the HTML document using JavaScript. Understand creating elements with createElement, then inserting them with appendChild or insertBefore to control element positioning dynamically within the DOM structure.

After you have grabbed a document element, you can add child elements to it with the appendChild() and insertBefore() methods.

The first method appends a new child to the end of the list of exiting children

The second method allows specifying the position of insertion. The Listing below demonstrates using them.

Listing: Using appendChild(), and insertBefore() methods

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