jquery.fix.clone.js.sdoc

Textarea and select clone() bug workaround | Spencer Tipping
Licensed under the terms of the MIT source code license

Motivation.
jQuery's clone() method works in most cases, but it fails to copy the value of textareas and select elements. This patch replaces jQuery's clone() method with a wrapper that fills in the
values after the fact.

An interesting error case submitted by Piotr Przybył: If two <select> options had the same value, the clone() method would select the wrong one in the cloned box. The fix, suggested by Piotr
and implemented here, is to use the selectedIndex property on the <select> box itself rather than relying on jQuery's value-based val().

(function (original) {
  jQuery.fn.clone = function () {
    var result           = original.apply(this, arguments),
        my_textareas     = this.find('textarea').add(this.filter('textarea')),
        result_textareas = result.find('textarea').add(result.filter('textarea')),
        my_selects       = this.find('select').add(this.filter('select')),
        result_selects   = result.find('select').add(result.filter('select'));

    for (var i = 0, l = my_textareas.length; i < l; ++i) $(result_textareas[i]).val($(my_textareas[i]).val());
    for (var i = 0, l = my_selects.length;   i < l; ++i) result_selects[i].selectedIndex = my_selects[i].selectedIndex;

    return result;
  };
}) (jQuery.fn.clone);