Question

I just want to clone the html tr and th’s, but not capture the outer thead /thead elements.

<thead id="justCloneTR">   // don't clone
 <tr id="Vehicle_1">       // clone
  <th>1</th>              // clone
  <th>2</th>              // clone
 </tr>                    // clone
</thead>                  // don't clone

<div id="putCloneHere"></div>

JS

$('#justCloneTR').clone('tr').appendTo('#putCloneHere');

Answer 1

If you have id to the tr then you can just use this.

$('#Vehicle_1').clone();

.clone() reference: http://api.jquery.com/clone/

Remember after cloning you should change the id of cloned element before you add it to DOM because you should not have 2 elements with same id.

Try this.

var id = 'Vehicle_' + parseInt($('#Vehicle_1').attr('id').match(/\d+/g), 10) + 1;
$('#Vehicle_1').clone().attr('id', id).appendTo('#putCloneHere');