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New DOM node methods: prepend, append, before, after, replaceWith

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 54)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The DOM standard provides a set of convenience methods for working with DOM Node trees: ParentNode.prepend(), ParentNode.append(), ChildNode.before(), ChildNode.after(), ChildNode.replaceWith(). Removal of the flag is anticipated in Chrome 54.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#childnode
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=632273

Docs: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#parentnode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ChildNode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ParentNode

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