jQuery Pocket Reference

Insertion and Deletion Methods

The methods described here insert, delete, and replace document content. In the method signatures below, the content argument may be a jQuery object, a string of HTML, or an individual document element, and the target argument may be a jQuery object, an individual document element, or a selector string. See Getting and Setting Element Content and Chapter 3 for further details.

after(content)after(f(idx):content)

Insert content after each selected element, or invoke f as a method of—and insert its return value after—each selected element.

append(content)append(f(idx,html):content)

Append content to each selected element, or invoke f as a method of—and append its return value to—each selected element.

appendTo(target):jQuery

Appends the selected elements to the end of each specified target element, cloning them as necessary if there is more than one target.

before(content)before(f(idx):content)

Like after(), but make insertions before the selected elements.

clone([data=false]):jQuery

Makes a deep copy of each of the selected elements and returns a new jQuery object representing the cloned elements. If data is true, also clones the data (including event handlers) associated with the selected elements.

detach([sel])

Like remove(), but does not delete any data associated with the detached elements.

empty()

Deletes the content of all selected elements.

html():stringhtml(htmlText)html(f(idx,current):htmlText)

With no arguments, return the content of the first selected ...