---
title: ParentNode.append()
slug: Web/API/ParentNode/append
translation_of: Web/API/ParentNode/append
---
<div>{{APIRef("DOM")}}</div>

<p><code style=""><font face="Arial, x-locale-body, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">El método </span></font><strong>ParentNode.append()</strong></code> inserta un conjunto de objetos de tipo {{domxref("Node")}} u objetos de tipo {{domxref("DOMString")}} después del último hijo de <code>ParentNode</code>. Los objetos {{domxref("DOMString")}} son insertados como nodos {{domxref("Text")}} equivalentes.</p>

<p>Diferencias con {{domxref("Node.appendChild()")}}:</p>

<ul>
 <li><code>ParentNode.append()</code> te permite también agregar objetos {{domxref("DOMString")}}, mientras que <code>Node.appendChild()</code> solo acepta objetos {{domxref("Node")}}.</li>
 <li><code>ParentNode.append()</code> no tiene valor de retorno, en cambio, <code>Node.appendChild()</code> devuelve el objeto {{domxref("Node")}} agregado.</li>
 <li><code>ParentNode.append()</code> puede agregar varios nodos y cadenas, mientras que <code>Node.appendChild()</code> sólo puede agregar uno.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="Sintaxis">Sintaxis</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox">[Throws, Unscopable]
void ParentNode.append((Node or DOMString)... nodes);
</pre>

<h3 id="Parameters">Parameters</h3>

<dl>
 <dt><code>nodes</code></dt>
 <dd>Un conjunto de {{domxref("Node")}} u objetos {{domxref("DOMString")}} a agegar.</dd>
</dl>

<h3 id="Exceptions">Exceptions</h3>

<ul>
 <li>{{domxref("HierarchyRequestError")}}: Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2>

<h3 id="Appending_an_element">Appending an element</h3>

<pre class="brush: js">var parent = document.createElement("div");
var p = document.createElement("p");
parent.append(p);

console.log(parent.childNodes); // NodeList [ &lt;p&gt; ]
</pre>

<h3 id="Appending_text">Appending text</h3>

<pre class="brush: js">var parent = document.createElement("div");
parent.append("Some text");

console.log(parent.textContent); // "Some text"</pre>

<h3 id="Appending_an_element_and_text">Appending an element and text</h3>

<pre class="brush: js">var parent = document.createElement("div");
var p = document.createElement("p");
parent.append("Some text", p);

console.log(parent.childNodes); // NodeList [ #text "Some text", &lt;p&gt; ]</pre>

<h3 id="ParentNode.append_is_unscopable"><code>ParentNode.append()</code> is unscopable</h3>

<p>The <code>append()</code> method is not scoped into the <code>with</code> statement. See {{jsxref("Symbol.unscopables")}} for more information.</p>

<pre class="brush: js">var parent = document.createElement("div");

with(parent) {
  append("foo");
}
// ReferenceError: append is not defined </pre>

<h2 id="Polyfill">Polyfill</h2>

<p>You can polyfill the <code>append() method</code> in Internet Explorer 9 and higher with the following code:</p>

<pre class="brush: js">// Source: https://github.com/jserz/js_piece/blob/master/DOM/ParentNode/append()/append().md
(function (arr) {
  arr.forEach(function (item) {
    if (item.hasOwnProperty('append')) {
      return;
    }
    Object.defineProperty(item, 'append', {
      configurable: true,
      enumerable: true,
      writable: true,
      value: function append() {
        var argArr = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments),
          docFrag = document.createDocumentFragment();

        argArr.forEach(function (argItem) {
          var isNode = argItem instanceof Node;
          docFrag.appendChild(isNode ? argItem : document.createTextNode(String(argItem)));
        });

        this.appendChild(docFrag);
      }
    });
  });
})([Element.prototype, Document.prototype, DocumentFragment.prototype]);</pre>

<h2 id="Specification">Specification</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM WHATWG', '#dom-parentnode-append', 'ParentNode.append()')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>



<p>{{Compat("api.ParentNode.append")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{domxref("ParentNode")}} and {{domxref("ChildNode")}}</li>
 <li>{{domxref("ParentNode.prepend()")}}</li>
 <li>{{domxref("Node.appendChild()")}}</li>
 <li>{{domxref("ChildNode.after()")}}</li>
 <li>{{domxref("NodeList")}}</li>
</ul>