Adding new elements into DOM using JavaScript (appendChild)

Question

I sometimes need to add elements (such as a new link and image) to an existing HTML page, but I only have access to a small portion of the page far from where I need to inse

Answer 1

If you're not adding many things, the way you've been doing it is ideal vs innerHTML. If you're doing it frequently though, you might just create a generic function/object that takes the pertinent information as parameters and does the dirty work. IE

function addImage(src,width,height,alt,appendElem,href) {...}

I do this often in my own projects using prototyping to save time.