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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:43:43+00:00

Im just learning javascript and I’m just wondering why this doesn’t work. I’ve created

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Im just learning javascript and I’m just wondering why this doesn’t work. I’ve created a button and when it is clicked I assigned a function which is supposed to append some text to all my paragraphs. I don’t know why it doesn’t work:

<html>
<head>
<title>javascript test</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function appendStuff(){
 var node = document.getElementsByTagName("P");
 node.appendChild.createTextNode('Here's some text');

 return true;
 }

</script>
<noscript>
Your browser doesn't support javascript.
</noscript>

<input type="submit" value="click me" onclick="appendStuff();" />

<p>
This is the first paragraph.
</p>

<p>
This is the second paragraph.
</p>

<p>
This is the third paragraph.
</p>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    you should pass new node as argument to appendChild method, like here:

    var nodes = document.getElementsByTagName("P");
for(var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++) {
   nodes[i].appendChild(document.createTextNode("Here's some text"));
}
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