Comments on: .detach()

By: Davidxiaozhi

Davidxiaozhi — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:04:31 +0000

Nice !

By: jonas

jonas — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:44:20 +0000

@James – if you put the above example inside
$(document).ready( function() { … })
- then I am fairly sure, that you can put it anywhere – in the head element or in a separete script.

By: James

James — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:20:26 +0000

Script must occur below elements in body (as shown in example). Tried this with the function as a script in the head element and it did not work.

By: Luke Maurer

Luke Maurer — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:17:59 +0000

Event handlers are retained, since they're stored using the data system.

(But yes, the docs should spell this out; other places are consistent in saying “event handlers and attached data” or some such.)

By: Luke Maurer

Luke Maurer — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:17:59 +0000

Event handlers are retained, since they're stored using the data system.

(But yes, the docs should spell this out; other places are consistent in saying “event handlers and attached data” or some such.)

By: Bob Kerns

Bob Kerns — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0000

The documentation here is a little vague about just what jQuery data is retained. Event handlers?

By: furf

furf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:39:53 +0000

elem.clone(true);
elem.remove();

By: furf

furf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:27:01 +0000

looking for an answer as well. for now gonna try:

$('.selector').clone(true).end().remove();

By: kuswantin

kuswantin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:31:49 +0000

Any work around for jQuery 1.3.2? My CMS is still too far to deploy jQuery 1.4

By: Vasil Dinkov

Vasil Dinkov — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:06:57 +0000

This is indeed very very useful, thanks! Maybe an "empty()" version would be cool too, though I currently use:

$(selector).contents().detach();

which works too.