DocumentType: after() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The DocumentType.after()
method inserts a set of
Node
objects or strings in the children list of the
DocumentType
's parent, just after the DocumentType
.
Strings are inserted as equivalent Text
nodes.
Syntax
js
after(param1)
after(param1, param2)
after(param1, param2, /* …, */ paramN)
Parameters
param1
, …,paramN
-
A set of
Node
objects or strings to insert.
Return value
None (undefined
).
Exceptions
HierarchyRequestError
DOMException
-
Thrown when the node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy.
Examples
js
let docType = document.implementation.createDocumentType("html", "", "");
let myDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", docType);
docType.after(document.createElement("html"));
myDoc.childNodes;
// NodeList [<!DOCTYPE html>, <html>]
Specifications
Specification |
---|
DOM # ref-for-dom-childnode-after① |
Browser compatibility
Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHubdesktop | mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
after |
Legend
Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.
- Full support
- Full support
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.