SUGGESTION: Make .append() able to take a URL in the same manner as .load()

[jp@…]

It would be convenient to append things from other pages.

ex: $('#box').append('​http://somewhere.com #someDiv');

[paul.irish]

cool idea.

so instead of

$('#box').append(' http://somewhere.com #someDiv');

you can just do

$('<div></div>').appendTo('#box').load('http://somewhere.com #someDiv');

which just requires a touch more work but really its not too bad.

[ajpiano]

FYI: part of why we wontfix'd this is because it would be very complicated and perhaps not-woth-it to determine what is a URL string with an optional selector and what is just an html string someone wants to append.

[trusktr]

oh, ok, cool. I didn't know .appendTo().

So does .appendTo() ignore the matched item in $('<div></div>') and append to #box in your example?

EDIT: wait, nevermind, i get it! Nice.