Is it possible to append to innerHTML without destroying descendants' event listeners?

Question

In the following example code, I attach an onclick event handler to the span containing the text \"foo\". The handler is an anonymous function that pops up an <

Answer 1

I'm a lazy programmer. I don't use DOM because it seems like extra typing. To me, the less code the better. Here's how I would add "bar" without replacing "foo":

function start(){
var innermyspan = document.getElementById("myspan").innerHTML;
document.getElementById("myspan").innerHTML=innermyspan+"bar";
}