[jQuery] What's DOM manipulation methods return values?

[March]

e.g.

var para = $('p#firstPara').after('<p id="secondPara">...</p>');

now, what's para? $('p#firstPara') or $('p#secondPara')?
in my testing, it's $('p#firstPara'), but i think it should be
$('p#secondPara')...

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Zacky Ma
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