Question

Is there a way to return the new inserted object added by the “after” or “before”.

Answer 1

Not exactly, but after has a friend insertAfter and before has a friend insertBefore, which do the job you’re after, although the signature of the methods are reversed.

Where you’d previous have had:

target.after(element);
target.before(element);

You should now have;

element.insertAfter(target);
element.insertBefore(target);