clone() working with insertAfter(), but not after()

[ryanjwilke]

When running this code, I found this bug:

This doesn't work $(this).parent().clone().after($(this).parent());

This works $(this).parent().clone().insertAfter($(this).parent());

From the description in the docs, both should work.

[Rick Waldron]

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[ajpiano]

Also, please provide some more illumination as to why you think this is a bug. Those two methods are not designed to work the exact same way. The former should insert the parent element of 'this' "after" the clone - which is nowhere, because the clone isn't in the DOM. The latter is designed to actually insert the clone into the DOM at a specified location - after the parent of 'this'.

[ryanjwilke]

Ahhh, thanks for pointing that out. I must have been confused mainly by the line: "The .after() and .insertAfter() methods perform the same task."

Maybe I took that too literally.

Thanks for the help though.