I understand what's happening but what I want to know is why. Because
I expect it work one way, and it works another. Therefore, if I can
understand the underlying concept, I won't assume a logical conclusion
that is incompatible with javascript (because there is surely a
difference in mental
May I suggest you moved on and consider [using jQuery]
I believe one should have a firm grasp of JavaScript and the DOM before
using abstractions like jQuery. (Although that's not necessarily a
strictly linear progression; experimenting with jQuery can be
educational WRT the underlying
Wow FND! I could have never guessed. Thanks!
Its here too at https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Node.appendChild:
var appendedElement = element.appendChild(child);
The returned element is the child which is *appended*. So this line
does NOT return element p, it returns the helloworld
Is the element p being created? I would hazard a guess that it *is*
being created. But in the following line the element p is not appended
to the body but is left orphan
It is being created in-memory, but does not persist in the document.
Thus the object's memory will be deallocated (freed)
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