Update "Modifying the document" page: element vs. node clarification #3802
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The documentation has been synchronized with MDN
These changes might seem insignificant, but they will reduce confusion for developers reading this documentation
For the methods
append
,prepend
,before
,after
, andreplaceWith
, the term "node" was replaced with "element" because these methods are actually only available on elements and not on nodesFor the methods
appendChild
,insertBefore
,replaceChild
, andremoveChild
, "parentElem" was replaced with "parentNode" because these methods are available for all types of nodesThe method
elem.cloneNode
was changed tonode.cloneNode
because this method supports cloning any type of node, not just elements