newbie jquery advice

newbie jquery advice

Wow cool - a jquery forum! Just what I needed I'm just starting out with jquery and need some advice on how to build this.

I'd like to have a list of DIVs that can be added and removed from a list. There is a button to remove each item, and a button that saves the order of the list. Bascially, it looks like this:

<DIV id="Container">

<!-- An "item" there can be a bunch of theses -->
<DIV class="item">
<SPAN class="close">Remove Me</span>
</DIV>

<a href="#">Save Me</a>

</DIV>

So, my first question is - how can I duplicate those items with a jquery script? Each has to be assigned an ID from a database as well.

Secondly, how to remove them? And finally - how to call up the IDs of each of item?

For the first part (adding items) I figure I can use the .add() function to write in another div in and pass it the ID. Thats cool, but I don't see a "remove" function.

And lastly for getting all the IDs and the order I think I'll need one of the traversing methods, but I'm not really sure where to start there....

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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