Is there a way to clone elements using JQuery?

Question

Is there a way to clone HTML elements using JQuery?

However, I want to be able to assign the cloned elements new attributes \"id, name\". So if I had a textfield ele

Answer 1

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I use jQuery over $ so it works with other libraries. Here is an example on an input text field.

jQuery('#example').clone().val('').attr('id', 'exmple2').attr('name', 'exmple2').insertAfter('#example');

If you want to clone the event handlers as well, you have to use clone(true).