How can I append an alement after another element?

Question

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

I try to append an element to the input field with the name "form[username]:

$( "<p>Test</p>" ).insertAfter('input[name=form[username]]');

But it is not working. Nothing happens.

I expect this result:

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
   <p>Test</p>
</div>

Answer 1

Since your input tag has an id form_username, you don't have to use [name] attribute as a selector anymore.

$( "<p>" ).text("Test").insertAfter('#form_username');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

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Or if you have only 1 input tag, you could try:

$( "<p>" ).text("Test").insertAfter('input');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

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Or if you want to use attribute name, you could rename the value form[username] to form_username, like this:

$( "<p>" ).text("Test").insertAfter('[name=form_username]');
$( "<p>" ).text("Test").insertAfter('input[name=form_username]');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form_username" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

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If you don't want to rename the name attribute value, you could try:

$( "<p>" ).text("Test").insertAfter('input[name*="username"]');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
   <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
   <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

Answer 2

Alternatively, you could just use jQuery's .append() method to append your paragraph to your existing page elements.

$('#content_one').append('<p>Test 1</p>');
$('#content_two').append('<p>Test 2</p>');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="content_one">
  <label for="form_username" class="required">Username</label>
  <input type="text" id="form_username" name="form[username]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>

<div id="content_two">
  <label for="form_password" class="required">Password</label>
  <input type="text" id="form_password" name="form[password]" required="required" class="form-control">
</div>