How to prepend content to the inside of every matched element using jQuery?

jQuery Web Development Front End Technology

To prepend content to the inside of every matched element using jQuery, use the prepend() method. Here is the description of the parameter used by this method:

content − Content to insert after each target. This could be HTML or Text content

Example

You can try to run the following code to prepend content to the inside of every matched element using jQuery −

Live Demo

<html>

   <head>
      <title>jQuery prepend() method</title>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
       
      <script>
         $(document).ready(function() {
            $("div").click(function () {
               $(this).prepend('<div class = "div"></div>' );
            });
         });
      </script>
       
      <style>
         .div {
             margin:10px;
             padding:12px;
             border:2px solid #666;
             width:60px;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   
   <body>
   
      <p>Click on any square below to see the result:</p>
       
      <div class = "div" style = "background-color:blue;"></div>
      <div class = "div" style = "background-color:green;"></div>
      <div class = "div" style = "background-color:red;"></div>
       
   </body>
</html>

David Meador

Updated on: 14-Feb-2020

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