What is the difference between HTML and append in jQuery?

Jquery version : 3.3. If you are looping through a list of objects, and want to add each object as a child of some parent dom element, then .html and .append will behave very different. .html will end up adding only the last object to the parent element, whereas .append will add all the list objects as children of the parent element.

Can jQuery use HTML?

The jQuery documentation would lead you to believe that if you are trying to add an existing jQuery, element, array, or Text that you cannot use .html since it says it only accepts an htmlString or function ...however it does call .empty ().append () internally and passing it an existing jQuery does work.

How to append a jQuery element in JavaScript?

The JavaScript's append is similar to jQuery's append. You can pass multiple arguments. var elm = document.getElementById ('div1'); elm.append (document.createElement ('p'),document.createElement ('span'),document.createElement ('div')); console.log (elm.innerHTML); append is a jQuery method to append some content or HTML to an element.

What is a jQuery DOM element?

DOM element, text node, array of elements and text nodes, HTML string, or jQuery object to insert at the end of each element in the set of matched elements. One or more additional DOM elements, text nodes, arrays of elements and text nodes, HTML strings, or jQuery objects to insert at the end of each element in the set of matched elements.