DOM Manipulation Methods

Following are the different methods:

MethodDescription
after(content)Content is inserted after each of the matched elements.
append(content)It appends the content to the inside of every matched element.
appendto(content)It appends the matched elements to another specified set of elements.
before(content)Content is inserted before each of the matched elements.
clone(content)It clones all the Matched DOM elements and their event handlers and selects the clones.
clone()It clones all the matched DOM elements and selects the clones.
empty()Removes all the child nodes from the set of matched elements.
html(val)It sets the html contents of every matched elements.
html()It gets the inner html contents of the first matched element.
insertAfter(selector)It inserts all the matched elements after another specified set of elements.
insertBefore(selector)It inserts all the matched elements before another specified set of elements.
prepend(content)It prepends the content to the inside of every matched element.
prependTo(selector)It prepends all of the matched elements to another specified set of elements.
remove(expr)All the matched elements are removed from DOM.
replaceAll(selector)It replaces all the elements by the specified selector with the matched elements.
replaceWith(content)It replaces all the elements with the specified DOM elements.
text(val)It sets the text contents of all matched elements.
text()It gets the combined text contents of all the matched elements.
wrap(ele)It wraps each matched elements with the specified element.
wrap(html)It wraps each matched elements with the specified HTML content.
wrapAll(ele)It wraps all the elements in the matched set into a single wrapper element.
wrapAll(html)It wraps all the elements in the matched set into a single wrapper element.
wrapInner(ele)It wraps the inner child contents of each matched element (including text nodes) with a DOM element.
wrapInner(html)It wraps the inner child contents of each matched element (including text nodes) with an HTML structure.