jQuery: Modify appended object's CSS

$('#foo').css({color:'black'}).append('<div>bar</div>').css({color:'red'});

Given the above, the css() method is applied to foo, but how could you get it to apply to the div that wraps "bar"?

The only way I could think of to do this in the same execution line would be to create a jQuery div object inside of the append(function(){ ... }) and apply the styling there.

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Note: I'm trying to avoid i开发者_StackOverflow社区nline styling (eg .append('<div style="color:red;">bar</div>')).

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Update: I'm actually applying css to foo as well; The example has been updated to reflect this

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You can flip the chain around so .css() runs on the appended element by using .appendTo() instead, like this:

$('<div>bar</div>').appendTo('#foo').css({color:'red'});
//or:
$('<div>bar</div>').css({color:'red'}).appendTo('#foo');
//or:
$('<div />', { text:'bar', css: {color:'red'} }).appendTo('#foo');

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Try this:

$('<div>bar</div>').css({color:'red'}).appendTo('#foo');

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$('#foo').append($('<div>bar</div>').css({color:'red'}));

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or $something like

$('#foo').append($('<div />').text('bar').css({color:'red'}));

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Easiest way is to use appendTo() rather than append():

$('<div>bar</div>').css({color:'red'}).appendTo('#foo');

You can find a working sample here: http://jsfiddle.net/YdzGZ/

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what about:

$('#foo').append('<div>bar</div>').end().css({color:'red'});

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How about you take a step back from the dynamic approach and create a rule or two in css?

#foo { color: black; }
#foo div,
#foo .orViaSomeClassName { color: red; }

No need to monkey about with injected inline styles that way.

And finally yet another approach to getting to the appended div:

$('#foo')
    .css('color', 'black') // css on #foo
    .append('<div>bar</div>') // appended to #foo
    .find('div')
        .css('color', 'red'); // css on divs inside #foo