Insert HTML after element with jQuery

Question

I'm looking to add a button after a specific element on an existing page. This is the code I've tried so far.

 $('.collection-nav').after('<span class="button">This is a button.</span>');

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <nav class="index-navigation collection-nav" role="navigation"> <div class="collection-nav-item" data-url-id="process"> <a href="/process/" class="process"> <span class="collection-nav-item-span">Process</span> </a> </div> <div class="collection-nav-item" data-url-id="our-breads"> <a href="/our-breads/" class="our-breads"> <span class="collection-nav-item-span">Bread</span> </a> </div> <div class="collection-nav-item" data-url-id="ourculutre"> <a href="/ourculutre/" class="ourculutre"> <span class="collection-nav-item-span">Culture</span> </a> </div> <div class="collection-nav-item" data-url-id="about"> <a href="/about/" class="about"> <span class="collection-nav-item-span">About</span> </a> </div> </nav>

Anything I'm missing here?

Answer 1

as far as I can see, the code you wrote is correct, but it needs to be triggered to work.

you can add a button like this => <button id="btnAfter">After Element</button>

you can try again later your code:

$('#btnAfter').click(function(){
  $('.collection-nav').after('<span class="button">This is a button.</span>');
})