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I think this is a little different from what was originally asked for.
Something along the lines of:
jQuery.fn.cloneWithEvents = function( deep ) {
var old = this;
return this.clone( deep ).cloneEventsFrom( old );
};
This way you can do the cloning (and the event cloning) all in one operation:
$("div.toggle").cloneWithEvents().appendTo("#container");
--John

Duh! I'll add the cloneWithEvents() method to the plugin shortly. I
was thinking how to make the plugin as flexible as possible and allow
for other use-cases instead of just with clone. Lets say for example
that you have an unordered list and each list item has events. Then
you add some more list items via AJAX but need to rebind the events.
Just use the cloneEventsFrom method.
Thanks John ... I believe that completes this plugin.
--
Brandon Aaron

Ahhh... I see, that's pretty useful.
I think I would be inclined to use the following naming convention:
- copyEvents
- copyEventsTo
- cloneWithEvents
This way "clone" is always associated with cloning elements.
Additionally, adding in the "From" seems sort of redundant (it's not
used elsewhere in jQuery (.appendFrom?)
Finally, now that I see what your goal is, I think this would be an
interesting goal:
$("#foo").load("some.html",function(){
$(this).copyEvents( true, "#otherfoo" );
});
And this would do a deep traversal of the contents of #foo, attempting
to copy over events from similar elements in #otherfoo.
Of course, an ultimate goal would be:
$("a").click(...);
$("li").addClass("test");
$("#foo").liveLoad( "foo.html" );
and having all the a elements receive that particular event handler,
and all li elements receive a class of test.
Of course, the technical aspects behind this are quite daunting, but
it would certainly be a cool effect.
--John

Right on. I agree and have changed the name of the plugin to
copyEvents and added the cloneWithEvents method.
Update links:
You can find this plugin in SVN:
http://jquery.com/dev/svn/trunk/plugins/copyEvents/copyEvents.js?format=txt
You can run the unit tests here:
http://brandon.jquery.com/plugins/copyEvents/test/unit.html
--
Brandon Aaron