Path: csiph.com!.POSTED.194-73-239-109.cust.centrio.cz!not-for-mail From: Cezary Tomczyk Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Inserting stuff received with AJAX into the DOM Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:29:03 +0200 Organization: csiph.com Internet News Service Message-ID: References: <7e54d58e-0ce6-4bb5-9f07-f65b69a94a64@googlegroups.com> <5846bd55-f0bd-4088-a596-aba50eef32a5@googlegroups.com> <11843581.uLZWGnKmhe@PointedEars.de> <7340100.T7Z3S40VBb@PointedEars.de> <19530051.EfDdHjke4D@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: csiph.com; posting-host="194-73-239-109.cust.centrio.cz:109.239.73.194"; logging-data="28636"; mail-complaints-to="admin@kev009.com" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 In-Reply-To: <19530051.EfDdHjke4D@PointedEars.de> Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:33831 On 20/08/2017 22:39, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Cezary Tomczyk wrote: > >> On 20/08/2017 19:18, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >>> Cezary Tomczyk wrote: >>>> "par" is always defined, […] >>> How did you get that idea? >> >> const par = document.createElement( 'p' ); > > And you are sure that the method that is called on the right-hand side of > that assignment cannot possibly return something else than a reference to > an object that has a method named “appendChild”? I am sure that: const par = document.createElement( 'p' ); will always create HTML element. I can't see any real scenario where createElement method will return "something else than a reference to an object that has a method named “appendChild”" in that particular scenario. Correct me, if I am wrong. -- Cezary Tomczyk http://www.ctomczyk.pl/