Not for something so simple. It's trivial to abstract small, oft-repeated actions like that to their own function. As I do, regularly. And then I can give it a

Not for something so simple. It's trivial to abstract small, oft-repeated actions like that to their own function. As I do, regularly. And then I can give it a readable name, like `createElement` or `insertElement` with an interface like: insertElement(type: string, text?: string. attributes?: object, parent?: string): void; I prefer writing something like that with some minor case-handling over pulling in a library every time I meet a repeatable fragment. If I know I'm going to run into a large host of needs, then it's a different story. But most of the time I find jQuery overkill and somewhat opaque.