How to detect if element is added or removed from DOM?

There is new HTML5 API called MutationObserver that allow to add events when DOM is changing including a case when element is added or removed from DOM. Mutation observer support is pretty good.

Here is example to detect if element is added/removed from DOM:

var in_dom = document.body.contains(element);
var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
    if (document.body.contains(element)) {
        if (!in_dom) {
            console.log("element inserted");
        }
        in_dom = true;
    } else if (in_dom) {
        in_dom = false;
        console.log("element removed");
    }

});
observer.observe(document.body, {childList: true});

to stop listening to changes you can run:

observer.disconnect();

DEMO