Append content to the inside of every matched element. This operation is similar to doing an appendChild to all the specified elements, adding them into the document. prepend(<Content>) before(<Content>) after(<Content>) Content to append to the target Appends some HTML to all paragraphs. I would like to say: $("p").append("Hello"); I would like to say: Hello Appends an Element to all paragraphs. I would like to say: Hello $("p").append( $("#foo")[0] ); I would like to say: Hello Appends a jQuery object (similar to an Array of DOM Elements) to all paragraphs. I would like to say: Hello $("p").append( $("b") ); I would like to say: Hello