Question

Here is my code

var targetArea = document.getElementById('nav');
var div = document.createElement('div');
var snippet = document.createTextNode('this is a new DIV');
div.appendChild(snippet);
targetArea.appendChild(div);

Here is my example:

http://jsfiddle.net/dennisboys/BRtYb/6/

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Node.appendChild, the doc says “Adds a node to the end of the list of children of a specified parent node.”, but my example shows, it adds to the top of the list of children. Any idea why this happens? Thanks.

Answer 1

.createTextNode should be called on document.

var targetArea = document.getElementById('nav');
var div = document.createElement('div');
var snippet = document.createTextNode('this is a new DIV');
div.appendChild(snippet);
targetArea.appendChild(div);

But by your example, you are using jQuery, so why not just do:

$('#nav').append('<div>this is a new DIV</div>');

And the demo.