{"json_modified": "2016-06-24T07:13:48.307620", "uuid": "fe3d898a-161c-4517-9c59-ead5eb1d3398", "title": "ChildNode.before()", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/ChildNode/before", "tags": ["API", "Reference", "Node", "Experimental", "DOM", "Api", "Method"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-06-24T07:13:48", "label": "ChildNode.before()", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 187202, "last_edit": "2016-06-24T07:13:41", "summary": "The <code><strong>ChildNode</strong></code><strong><code>.before</code></strong> method inserts a set of <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node\" title=\"A Node is an interface from which a number of DOM types inherit, and allows these various types to be treated (or tested) similarly.\"><code>Node</code></a> or <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMString\" title=\"DOMString is a UTF-16 String. As JavaScript already uses such strings, DOMString is mapped directly to a String.\"><code>DOMString</code></a> objects in the children list of this <code>ChildNode</code>'s parent, just before this <code>ChildNode</code>. <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMString\" title=\"DOMString is a UTF-16 String. As JavaScript already uses such strings, DOMString is mapped directly to a String.\"><code>DOMString</code></a> objects are inserted as equivalent <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/Text\" title=\"The Text interface represents the textual content of Element or Attr.&#xA0; If an element has no markup within its content, it has a single child implementing Text that contains the element's text.&#xA0; However, if the element contains markup, it is parsed into information items and Text nodes that form its children.\"><code>Text</code></a> nodes.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Syntax", "title": "Syntax"}, {"id": "Parameters", "title": "Parameters"}, {"id": "Exceptions", "title": "Exceptions"}, {"id": "Examples", "title": "Examples"}, {"id": "Inserting_an_element", "title": "Inserting an element"}, {"id": "Inserting_text", "title": "Inserting text"}, {"id": "Inserting_an_element_and_text", "title": "Inserting an element and text"}, {"id": "ChildNode.before()_is_unscopable", "title": null}, {"id": "Specification", "title": "Specification"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/ChildNode/before", "review_tags": []}