Any Reason why appendChild("<li>test</li>"); will not work like this?

[Cyberangel67]

When using appemdChild in this manner returns an error, yet there is no real reason why this is an issue.

For example


el = Ext.get('myData');
el.appendChild('<li>test</li>');

Doesn't work with a very strange message. Anyway have any clues what is wrong here? Yet if I dump the variable el back to fireBug there is a clear indication I can use appendChild.

[Condor]

appendChild is used to append existing nodes. You want to append new HTML, so you should be using createChild.

[Cyberangel67]

That seems wrong to me, because the docs cleary state that I can pass a string. A string to me is allowing me to do the above to then create and apply the child.

[Condor]

Yes, you can pass a string, but that is interpreted as the id of an existing element.