[jQuery] Re: Insert new DOM element with new ID (index)?

[spicyj]

I think your code has a couple extra lines. It should be:

$('.new').livequery('click', function() {
  $('.new').before('<li class="item' + (index+2) + '">Item ' + (index
+ 2) + '</li>');
  return false;
});

Though I'm not sure you actually need "livequery" there; I think bind
would suffice.