Append to the second to last li

Question

Ok so I have this HTML structure and I need to keep appending a new li after test3 and so on...right before the form li. I know how to do the append logic in jquery but how do I isolate and make sure I can keep doing it....maybe use the live function.

<td class="resources_present">
<ul>
    <li><a href="http://test.com">http://test.com</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://test2.com">http://test2.com</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://tes3.com">http://test3.com</a></li>
<li><form method="post" id="new_resource" class="new_resource" action="/resources" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: inline;"><input type="hidden" value="✓" name="utf8"><input type="hidden" value="BEeMlTtPiMi8mv/whQ2z757CTTOnNl0oiPpN3WdqSBg=" name="authenticity_token"></div>
  <div class="field">
    <input type="text" size="30" name="resource[url]" id="resource_url">
    <input type="hidden" value="5" name="resource[course_id]" id="resource_course_id">
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <input type="submit" value="Create" name="commit" id="resource_submit" style="display: inline;">
        <img class="noShow" src="/images/spinner.gif" style="display: none;">
  </div>
</form></li>
</ul>
</td>

Basically I need to find the selector to add this:

    <li><a href="http://test4.com">http://test4.com</a></li> // after the 

            <li><a href="http://test3.com">http://test3.com</a></li> // and continue to do that with 5, 6 , 7, and so on

Answer 1

Many ways to do this. Here's one:

$('li:last').prev();

And to add:

$('li:last').prev().after('<li><a href="http://test4.com">http://test4.com</a></li>');