jQuery add next to (add after)

Question

HTML is
<a>ref</a>

I need to get
<a>ref</a>text

How can i do this? $('a').append('text') only insert text into <a></a>, not after it

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2607592/jquery-add-next-to-add-after

Answer 1

Use after or insertAfter:

$('a').after('text');
$('text').insertAfter('a');