Quoting Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Interesting...VERY interesting.
> This strikes me as a task where creating new elements may be less > gremlin-prone than cloning. > > Michael Geary's "Easy DOM Creation" plugin might make it easier to write a > function that creates the appropriate DOM tree branch. > > http://mg.to/2006/02/27/easy-dom-creation-for-jquery-and-prototype > > - Brian > > > > I'm working with recipes and I want to use some jQuery goodness to clone a > > DOM construct that will contain a few form fields so that adding > > ingredients > > is easy, and fun. I thought that it would be pretty easy to code but it's > > giving me some trouble and I wanted to see if you guys could help me out. > > > > My HTML: > > <ol id="ingList"> > > <li class="ingredient"><input type="text" name="ing_01"><input > > type="button" class="addIng" value="+"></li> > > </ol> > > > > Here's the jQ code I have thus far: > > $(document).ready( function(){ > > $('#ingList .ingredient .addIng').click( function() { > > $('#ingList > > .ingredient').clone().appendTo('#ingList:last-child'); > > > > }); > > }); > > > > The goal is that the user would fill the first field then click the "+" > > button. Then the following would occur: > > > > 1) Clone current LI tag > > 2) Append it to itself. > > 3) Clear the value from the form field > > 4) Increment the name value of the form element, ing_01, ing_02, etc. > > 5) Lastly, remove the plus button from the elemet just previous to the new > > one. > > > > I'm working with various jQ methods but I can't seem to get this working. > > Does anyone have input on this? > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/