Clone matched DOM Elements and select the clones. This is useful for moving copies of the elements to another location in the DOM. (Optional) Set to false if you don't want to clone all descendant nodes, in addition to the element itself. Clones all b elements (and selects the clones) and prepends them to all paragraphs. <b>Hello</b><p>, how are you?</p> $("b").clone().prependTo("p"); <b>Hello</b><p><b>Hello</b>, how are you?</p>