Question

I have HTML like this:

<span class="file-wrapper" id="fileSpan">
    <input type="file" name="photo[]" id="photo" />
    <span class="button">Click to choose photo</span>
</span>

I want to extract the input field from there, change its ID and put it in an other div.

How can I do that? If jQuery is needed that’s okay, but if it can be without that would be great.

Answer 1

It’s certainly easy in jQuery:

// jQuery 1.6+
$("#photo").prop("id", "newId").appendTo("#someOtherDiv");

// jQuery (all versions)
$("#photo").attr("id", "newId").appendTo("#someOtherDiv");

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AndyE/a93Az/

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If you want to do it in plain ol’ JS, it’s still fairly simple:

var photo = document.getElementById("photo");
photo.id  = "newId";
document.getElementById("someOtherDiv").appendChild(photo); 

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AndyE/a93Az/1/