appendTo add dom as last element in target but how to add it as first?

I want to add element to as first as below. How can i do this ?

$('<li>').appendTo($('ul')); // add it as last element

<ul>
    <!-- i want to add element here -->
    <li></li>
    <li></li&开发者_Python百科gt;
</ul>

Use jQuery's .prepend() http://api.jquery.com/prepend/

$('ul').prepend('<li>new</li>')

Your looking for the prependTo method.