jQuery Append – The Complete Guide with Lots of Examples

The jQuery Append method appends the content inside of every matched element. It is very helpful in doing DOM Manipulation.

Syntax

1	$(selector).append( content [, content ] [, content ] [, content ]..... )

Parameter	Description
Content	Required. Specifies the content to insert Possible values: HTML elements jQuery objects DOM elements Text
[, content ]	Optional. Specifies the content to insert Possible values: HTML elements jQuery objects DOM elements Text

You can use any number of content to add in a single append statement.

Don’t forget to check the jQuery Prepend method that is closely realted to this method.

Let us add content to a div having id myDiv.

1	<div id="myDiv">Welcome</div>

Adding a Single Content with jQuery Append

Welcome

1	$("#myDiv").append(" to YogiHosting")

It will become:

1	<div id="myDiv">Welcome to YogiHosting.</div>

Adding 3 Contents with jQuery Append

Welcome

1	$("#myDiv").append(" to YogiHosting."," Are you enjoying", " coding?")

It will become:

1	<div id="myDiv">Welcome to YogiHosting. Are you enjoying coding?</div>

jQuery Append HTML

Now I will show how to append an HTML element to a div.

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<div id="myDiv">     Welecome </div>

To the above div element append a paragraph element using jQuery Append.

1	$("#myDiv").append("<p>to YogiHosting. Are you enjoying coding?</p>")

It will become.

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<div id="myDiv">     Welecome     <p>to YogiHosting. Are you enjoying coding?</p> </div>

jQuery Append to DOM

Using jQuery Append method, an element in the DOM can be shifted from one location to another.

Consider the following HTML:

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<h4>USA</h4> <div class="fullName">     <p>United</p>     <p>States</p>     <p>America</p> </div>

I can move the h4 element inside of div having class as fullName:

1	$(".fullName").append($("h4"));

This will make the HTML as:

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<div class="fullName">     <p>United</p>     <p>States</p>     <p>America</p>     <h4>USA</h4> </div>

jQuery Append Text

You can also append any text using the jQuery Append method. Let us append a text to the HTML paragraph:

1 2	<p>The President of United States is: </p> $("p").append("Donald Trump");

The above paragraph will become:

1	<p>The President of United States is:  Donald Trump</p>

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