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Append

methods

Appends a new item to the children data source and initializes it if necessary.

append

Parameters:modelObject|kendo.data.Node

The data for the new item.

<script>
var parentTask = new kendo.data.Node({ text: "Parent" });
parentTask.append({ text: "Child" });
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
console.log(parentTask.children.data().length); // outputs "1"
var child = parentTask.children.at(0);
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
console.log(child.text); // outputs "Child"
</script>