Add text before or after an HTML element

Question

If i have an HTML element like

with some text inside or another elements can I add before or after this div some text data without an html element,

Answer 1

Just for the record:

div.insertAdjacentHTML( 'beforeBegin', yourText );

where div is your child-DIV.

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ZkzDk/