26837 2014-09-17 19:01:36 +0000 The spec has an example using cloneNode. It would be nice to have another example using just appendChild, similar to this one: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/template/#toc-using 2014-09-29 21:18:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-template-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian denilsonsa ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 111704 0 contributor 2014-09-17 19:01:36 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-template-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-template-element Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting-1.html Comment: The spec has an example using cloneNode. It would be nice to have another example using just appendChild, similar to this one: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/template/#toc-using Posted from: 187.1.80.162 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36 112144 1 ian 2014-09-24 22:23:51 +0000 I assume you mean importNode(), not appendChild(). I don't really understand why you would use importNode(). It's exactly the same as cloneNode(), except requires more code. Can you elaborate? 112153 2 denilsonsa 2014-09-24 22:49:16 +0000 Indeed, I meant importNode(). As a web developer, I usually read the specs to understand how to use the technologies correctly. And I got confused why cloneNode() is mentioned in the example, while importNode() is used in that other tutorial. I didn't know which one was correct, or if they were equivalent. Considering the <template> element creates another Document to hold its contents, I got confused if importNode was required. This is why I have suggested to add another example (or a comment) showing that they are equivalent. Thanks for your concern! 112188 3 ian 2014-09-25 18:03:03 +0000 I can add a note saying that some authors prefer importNode() but that they are actually identical, sure. target.appendChild(document.importNode(node, true)) ...is exactly identical to: target.appendChild(node.cloneNode(true)) The only difference between cloneNode and importNode is that importNode also changes the ownerDocument, but the ownerDocument gets adjusted by appendChild anyway. 112420 4 contributor 2014-09-29 21:18:50 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8825. Check-in comment: Add a comment about cloneNode vs importNode in the example that clones a template, since some tutorials use importNode instead of cloneNode (they're identical in practice) https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8824&to=8825