vanillajs-browser-helpers/append.mjs

Collection of convenience code snippets (helpers) that aims to make it a little easier to work with vanilla JS in the browser

import isString from 'vanillajs-helpers/isString';
import ensureHTML from './ensureHTML';
/**
 * Append DOM element or plain HTML to the end of a given DOM element
 *
 * @param elm - The DOM element to append to
 * @param insertElm - DOM element or HTML (or selector) to append to insert
 * @return The inserted child element
 */
export default function append(elm, insertElm) {
    if (!elm) {
        return null;
    }
    if (isString(insertElm)) {
        elm.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', ensureHTML(insertElm));
    }
    else {
        elm.append(insertElm);
    }
    return elm.lastElementChild;
}