| Method/Property | Description | Return Value |
|---|
| HTML |
| html() | Returns the HTML contents, or innerHTML, of the first element of the selection. This method does not work on XML documents, but does work on XHTML documents. | String |
| html(value) | Sets the HTML contents of every selected element. This method does not work on XML documents, but does work on XHTML documents. | jQuery |
| Text |
| text() | Returns the text content of each selected element. | String |
| text(value) | Sets the text content of each selected element. HTML source code will not be rendered. | jQuery |
| Inserting Inside |
| append(content) | Appends the specified content to the inside of every selected element. | jQuery |
| appendTo(selector) | Appends all of the selected elements to the elements specified by the selector argument. | jQuery |
| prepend(content) | Prepends the specified content to the inside of each selected element. | jQuery |
| prependTo(selector) | Prepends all of the selected elements to the elements specified by the selector argument. | jQuery |
| Inserting Outside |
| after(content) | Inserts the specified content after each selected element. | jQuery |
| insertAfter(selector) | Inserts the selected elements after the elements specified by the selector argument. | jQuery |
| before(content) | Inserts the specified content before each selected element. | jQuery |
| insertBefore(selector) | Inserts the selected elements before the selectors specified by the selector argument. | jQuery |
| Inserting Around |
| wrap(html) | Wraps each selected element with the specified HTML content. | jQuery |
| wrap(element) | Wraps each selected element with the specified element from the DOM. | jQuery |
| wrapAll(html) | Wraps all of the selected elements with a single wrapper specified as HTML. | jQuery |
| wrapAll(element) | Wraps all of the selected elements with the specified element from the DOM. | jQuery |
| wrapInner(html) | Wraps the inner contents of each selected element with the specified HTML. | jQuery |
| wrapInner(element) | Wraps the inner contents of each selected element with the specified element from the DOM. | jQuery |
| Replacing |
| replaceWith(content) | Replaces each selected element with the specified HTML or DOM elements. This method returns the jQuery object including the element that was replaced. | jQuery |
| replaceAll(selector) | Replaces the elements specified in the selector argument with the selected elements. | jQuery |
| Removing |
| empty() | Removes all child nodes from the selected elements. | jQuery |
| remove(selector) | Removes the selected elements from the DOM. | jQuery |
| Copying |
| clone() | Clones the selected elements; returns the jQuery object including the clones you created. | jQuery |
| clone(true) | Clones the selected elements and their event handlers; returns the jQuery object including the clones you created. | jQuery |
