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<h1 class="jq-clearfix">.before()</h1>
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<span class="name">.before( content [, content] )</span> <span class="returns">Returns: <a class="return" href="http://api.jquery.com/Types/#jQuery">jQuery</a></span>
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<p class="desc"><strong>Description: </strong>Insert content, specified by the parameter, before each element in the set of matched elements.</p>
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<span class="versionAdded">version added: <a href="/category/version/1.0/">1.0</a></span>.before( content [, content] )</h4>
<p class="arguement"><strong>content</strong>HTML string, DOM element, or jQuery object to insert before each element in the set of matched elements.</p>
<p class="arguement"><strong>content</strong>One or more additional DOM elements, arrays of elements, HTML strings, or jQuery objects to insert before each element in the set of matched elements.</p>
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<span class="versionAdded">version added: <a href="/category/version/1.4/">1.4</a></span>.before( function )</h4>
<p class="arguement"><strong>function</strong>A function that returns an HTML string, DOM element(s), or jQuery object to insert before each element in the set of matched elements. Receives the index position of the element in the set as an argument. Within the function, <code>this</code> refers to the current element in the set.
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<p>The <code>.before()</code> and <code><a href="/insertBefore">.insertBefore()</a></code> methods perform the same task. The major difference is in the syntax-specifically, in the placement of the content and target. With<code> .before()</code>, the selector expression preceding the method is the container before which the content is inserted. With <code>.insertBefore()</code>, on the other hand, the content precedes the method, either as a selector expression or as markup created on the fly, and it is inserted before the target container.</p>
<p>Consider the following HTML:</p>
<pre><div class="container">
<h2>Greetings</h2>
<div class="inner">Hello</div>
<div class="inner">Goodbye</div>
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<p>You can create content and insert it before several elements at once:</p>
<pre>$('.inner').before('<p>Test</p>');</pre>
<p>Each inner <code><div></code> element gets this new content:</p>
<pre><div class="container">
<h2>Greetings</h2>
<p>Test</p>
<div class="inner">Hello</div>
<p>Test</p>
<div class="inner">Goodbye</div>
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<p>You can also select an element on the page and insert it before another:</p>
<pre>$('.container').before($('h2'));</pre>
<p>If an element selected this way is inserted elsewhere, it will be moved before the target (not cloned):</p>
<pre><h2>Greetings</h2>
<div class="container">
<div class="inner">Hello</div>
<div class="inner">Goodbye</div>
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<p>If there is more than one target element, however, cloned copies of the inserted element will be created for each target after the first.</p>
<p>In jQuery 1.4, <code>.before()</code> and <code>.after()</code> will also work on disconnected DOM nodes:</p>
<pre>$("<div/>").before("<p></p>");</pre>
<p>The result is a jQuery set that contains a paragraph and a div (in that order).</p>
<h4 id="additional-arguments">Additional Arguments</h4>
<p>Similar to other content-adding methods such as <code><a href="http://api.jquery.com/prepend/">.prepend()</a></code> and <code><a href="http://api.jquery.com/after/">.after()</a></code>, <code>.before()</code> also supports passing in multiple arguments as input. Supported input includes DOM elements, jQuery objects, HTML strings, and arrays of DOM elements.</p>
<p>For example, the following will insert two new <code><div></code>s and an existing <code><div></code> before the first paragraph:</p>
<pre>var $newdiv1 = $('<div id="object1"/>'),
newdiv2 = document.createElement('div'),
existingdiv1 = document.getElementById('foo');
$('p').first().before($newdiv1, [newdiv2, existingdiv1]);
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<p>Since <code>.before()</code> can accept any number of additional arguments, the same result can be achieved by passing in the three <code><div></code>s as three separate arguments, like so: <code>$('p').first().before($newdiv1, newdiv2, existingdiv1)</code>. The type and number of arguments will largely depend on how you collect the elements in your code.</p>
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<h3>Examples:</h3>
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<h4>Example: <span class="desc">Inserts some HTML before all paragraphs.</span>
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<pre class="prettyprint"><code class="example demo-code"><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>p { background:yellow; }</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p> is what I said...</p>
<script>$("p").before("<b>Hello</b>");</script>
</body>
</html></code></pre>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
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<div id="example-1">
<h4>Example: <span class="desc">Inserts a DOM element before all paragraphs.</span>
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<pre class="prettyprint"><code class="example demo-code"><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>p { background:yellow; }</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p> is what I said...</p>
<script>$("p").before( document.createTextNode("Hello") );</script>
</body>
</html></code></pre>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
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<h4>Example: <span class="desc">Inserts a jQuery object (similar to an Array of DOM Elements) before all paragraphs.</span>
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<pre class="prettyprint"><code class="example demo-code"><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>p { background:yellow; }</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p> is what I said...</p><b>Hello</b>
<script>$("p").before( $("b") );</script>
</body>
</html></code></pre>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
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