Question

Is it possible to use prepend for each element in a list of input‘s within a form?
The prepend below only prepends the first element – is it possible to prepend the label for all items:

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#sg1").each(function(){
        $(this).prepend("<label for=\""+$(this).attr("id")+"\">"+$(this).attr("id")+"</label>");
    });
});
</script>
<form id="sg1">
    <input name="member1" id="member1" value="jack" />
    <input name="member2" id="member2" value="carter" />
    <input name="member3" id="member3" value="jackson" />
    <input name="member4" id="member4" value="tielk" />
</form>

http://jsfiddle.net/RM5wG/

Answer 1

You need to loop through the inputs instead of the form, and use something like .insertBefore() instead, like this:

$("#sg1 input").each(function(){
  $('<label for="'+ this.id +'">' + this.id + '</label>').insertBefore(this);
});​

You can give it a try here

.prepend() inserts an element as the first child, but an <input> doesn’t get children, if you want it before use .insertBefore() to place it before the element you pass to .insertBefore() 🙂