How to copy all the attributes of one element and apply them to another?

Answer 1

You can try this:

function copyAttributes(from, to)
{
  $($(from)[0].attributes).
    each(function(){$(to).attr(this.nodeName, this.nodeValue);});

  return $(to);
};

The return statement lets you write things like:

copyAttributes(some_element, $('
')).append(...) ...

Hope this helps.