javascript - jQuery duplicate DIV into another DIV

Question

Need some jquery help copying a DIV into another DIV and hoping that this is possible. I have the following HTML:

  <div class="container">
  <div class="button"></div>
  </div>

And then I have another DIV in another location in my page and I would like to copy the 'button' div into the following 'package' div:

<div class="package">

Place 'button' div in here

</div>

Answer 1

You'll want to use the clone() method in order to get a deep copy of the element:

$(function(){
  var $button = $('.button').clone();
  $('.package').html($button);
});

Full demo: http://jsfiddle.net/3rXjx/

From the jQuery docs:

The .clone() method performs a deep copy of the set of matched elements, meaning that it copies the matched elements as well as all of their descendant elements and text nodes. When used in conjunction with one of the insertion methods, .clone() is a convenient way to duplicate elements on a page.