Question

I want to clone the html of ‘divhtml’ to ‘divPlainHtml’ but the code below doesn’t work: after its execution, $(‘#divPlainHtml’) returns empty object []

$('#divhtml').clone(false).
      appendTo('<div id="divPlainHtml" style="display: none;"></div>')

Answer 1

The reason is, divPlainHtml does not exist in the DOM to append to. Try this.

$('<div id="divPlainHtml" style="display: none;"></div>')
.appendTo(document.body)//Or specify the container where you want to append it
.append($('#divhtml').clone(false));