Question

I’ve been on this for more than a half a day and I can’t figure out what I’m missing. I’ve tried many different iterations and every other solution I could find. It should be a no-brainer. I am using JQueryMobile 1.2 and it’s dependencies Here’s the javascript (note var counter = 2; is declared above the code:

    $("#btn_addIngredient").click(function () {      
        if (counter > 10) {
            alert("Please limit to 10 ingredients");
            return false;
        }   

        var newIngredientTextBox = $(document.createElement('div')).attr("id", 'div_ingredient' + counter);         

        newIngredientTextBox.after().html('<input type="text" name="ingredient' + counter + 
              '" id="ingredient' + counter + '" value="#' + counter + '" >');

        newIngredientTextBox.appendTo("#allIngredientsDiv"); 
        counter++;

    }); //~ $("#btn_addIngredient")

And the html:

     <div id="IngredientsTextGroup" data-role="fieldcontain">
            <fieldset id="IngredientsFieldset" data-role="controlgroup" data-mini="true">
            <div id="allIngredientsDiv">
                Ingredients
                <div id="div_ingredient1">
                    <input id="ingredient1" value="#1" type="text">
                </div>

                <!-- *** Need to add <div_ingredient2, 3 ...>  -->

            </div>
            <a id="btn_addIngredient" href="#" data-role="button" data-inline="true" data-icon="plus"
                             data-iconpos="left">
                Add Ingredient
            </a>
    <div>

Answer 1

You are using .after() wrong.. If you want the element to after your selected element then do this

newIngredientTextBox.after('<input type="text" name="ingredient' + counter + 
          '" id="ingredient' + counter + '" value="#' + counter + '" />');

If you want it to be inside div element then you can use .append()

newIngredientTextBox.append('<input type="text" name="ingredient' + counter + 
          '" id="ingredient' + counter + '" value="#' + counter + '" />');

Also you need to append the element after you add it to the dom.. not before

newIngredientTextBox.appendTo("#allIngredientsDiv").after('<input type="text" name="ingredient' + counter + 
          '" id="ingredient' + counter + '" value="#' + counter + '" />');