Ferdinand Beyer wrote:
> What I would really like to see in the standard library is that jQuery
> objects can be passed to the $() function to obtain a copy:
>
> var $a = $('some.query');
> var $b = $($a);
>
> $b.filter('some.criteria'); // Does not affect $a
>
> What do you think about that?
Could .end()[1] do what you're after? I suppose in your example it
would be:
$('some.query').doSomething()
.filter('some.criteria')
.doSomethingElse()
.end();
There are circumstances when a method of cloning would be useful, though
I'm not sure of an "official" method.
[1] http://www.visualjquery.com/#base_dom_end
Best wishes,
Dave Cardwell ~ http://davecardwell.co.uk/
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