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HTML

This is some text outside the div

CSS

.inlineblock { 
    display:inline-block;
    width:200px;
    height:200px;
    background:blue;
}

JavaScript

//$(".inlineblock").hide();
setTimeout(function(){
    $('.inlineblock').show();
}, 2000);

$('<div class="inlineblock" style="display:inline-block;"></div>').hide().prependTo('body');