Append multiple items in JavaScript

I have the following function and I am trying to figure out a better way to append multiple items using appendChild().

When the user clicks on Add, each item should look like this:

<li>
  <input type="checkbox">
  <label>Content typed by the user</label>
  <input type="text">
  <button class="edit">Edit</button>
  <button class="delete">Delete</button>
</li>

and I have this function to add these elements:

function addNewItem(listElement, itemInput) {
  var listItem = document.createElement("li");
  var listItemCheckbox = document.createElement("input");
  var listItemLabel = document.createElement("label");
  var editableInput = document.createElement("input");
  var editButton = document.createElement("button");
  var deleteButton = document.createElement("button");

  // define types
  listItemCheckbox.type = "checkbox";
  editableInput.type = "text";

  // define content and class for buttons
  editButton.innerText = "Edit";
  editButton.className = "edit";
  deleteButton.innerText = "Delete";
  deleteButton.className = "delete";

  listItemLabel.innerText = itemText.value;

  // appendChild() - append these items to the li
  listElement.appendChild(listItem);
  listItem.appendChild(listItemCheckbox);
  listItem.appendChild(listItemLabel);
  listItem.appendChild(editButton);
  listItem.appendChild(deleteButton);

  if (itemText.value.length > 0) {
    itemText.value = "";
    inputFocus(itemText);
  }
}

But you can notice that I am repeating three times the appendChild() for listItem. Is it possible to add multiple items to the appendChild() ?

Solution

Personally, I don't see why you would do this.

But if you really need to replace all the appendChild() with one statement, you can assign the outerHTML of the created elements to the innerHTML of the li element.

You just need to replace the following:

  listElement.appendChild(listItem);
  listItem.appendChild(listItemCheckbox);
  listItem.appendChild(listItemLabel);
  listItem.appendChild(editButton);
  listItem.appendChild(deleteButton);

With the following:

listItem.innerHTML+= listItemCheckbox.outerHTML + listItemLabel.outerHTML + editButton.outerHTML + deleteButton.outerHTML;
listElement.appendChild(listItem);

Explanation:

The outerHTML attribute of the element DOM interface gets the serialized HTML fragment describing the element including its descendants. So assigning the outerHTML of the created elements to the innerHTML of the li element is similar to appending them to it.