JavaScript moving element in the DOM

Answer 1

Sorry for bumping this thread I stumbled over the "swap DOM-elements" problem and played around a bit

The result is a jQuery-native "solution" which seems to be really pretty (unfortunately i don't know whats happening at the jQuery internals when doing this)

The Code:

$('#element1').insertAfter($('#element2'));

The jQuery documentation says that insertAfter() moves the element and doesn't clone it