Clone a div and change the ID's of it and all it's children to be unique

Question

Using JQuery it possible to clone a Div like this and change add a new identifier to it\'s ID and all it\'s children ID\'s?

For instance I\'d like to be able to clon

Answer 1

David Morton had the right answer back in 2010, but I just wanted to update it. jQuery removed .andSelf() in 3.0.0 (see adeneo's answer). The latest and greatest (as of this writing) is .addBack(). So the line would be:

$("#current_users").clone(false).find('*[id]').addBack().each(function () { $(this).attr('id', function(i , id) { return id + "_cloned" + ruleId}) });

If you need to get it back as a string, which was the case for me, add .get(0).outerHTML; to the end.

Answer 2

$("#current_users").clone(false).find("*[id]").andSelf().each(function() { $(this).attr("id", $(this).attr("id") + "_cloned"); });

And watch your events if there are any attached. You'll have to fix them up if they rely on ids.

Answer 3

Unless you actually need to uniquely identify each of those cloned DIV's via code, I would replace your ID's with reusable classes. Otherwise, David Morton's answer looks like it might do the trick.