This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The Range.insertNode() method inserts a node at the start of the Range.
The new node is inserted at the start boundary point of the Range. If the new node is to be added to a text Node, that Node is split at the insertion point, and the insertion occurs between the two text nodes.
If the new node is a document fragment, the children of the document fragment are inserted instead.
insertNode(newNode)
None (undefined).
range = document.createRange();
newNode = document.createElement("p");
newNode.appendChild(document.createTextNode("New Node Inserted Here"));
range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0));
range.insertNode(newNode);
| Specification |
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| DOM> # dom-range-insertnode> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
insertNode |
1 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Range/insertNode