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Clone markup without sharing its identity
jQuery: clone creates a separate node; change duplicated IDs before inserting.
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Insert a sibling after an element
jQuery: after preserves the selected element and adds its next sibling.
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Insert a sibling before an element
jQuery: before inserts outside the selected element.
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Insert an item at the beginning
jQuery: prepend inserts before the existing children.
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Move a node without losing its event handler
jQuery: detach retains jQuery data and events for reinsertion.
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Remove a wrapper while preserving its children
jQuery: unwrap replaces a selected element’s parent with that parent’s contents.
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Replace an element while preserving its position
jQuery: replaceWith swaps an entire node.
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Wrap a collection in one shared parent
jQuery: wrapAll places all selected elements inside one wrapper.
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Wrap each matched element separately
jQuery: wrap adds a parent around each selected element.
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Wrap only an element’s existing contents
jQuery: wrapInner leaves the outer element intact.
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