jQuery changing the id attribute of all the children

Question

I need some help figuring out how to write some jQuery code.

I need to clone a table dynamically onclick. but then I need to change the ids of the table and its chil

Answer 1

$("#table1").find(*)

should be

table.find("*")

$("#table1") will not return anything on that line of code as you have not yet added the table to the DOM. And * is a selector which should be a string.