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Inserting Text
Text can be added at any appropriate place in a document by creating and inserting a new Text node. Document.createTextNode takes a text string as an argument, and returns a new node (Text object) that can be inserted by calling methods such as Node.appendChild or Node.insertBefore on the desired node.