AngularJS implement element's before method without jQuery

Question

Is there a simple way to implement before method for DOM manipulation without jQuery in my AngularJS directive?

jQuery way is:

$element.before($insertedBeforeElement);

Answer 1

To do it without jQuery but with angular's jqLite:

$element.parent()[0].insertBefore($insertedBeforeElement[0], $element[0]);

Answer 2

jqLite does support .after() so you can use that to do a little shuffling.

$element.after($insertedBeforeElement); //add it after
$insertedBeforeElement.after($element); //now switch the positions