Moving an element to the body using jQuery

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Published on 2010-06-07T14:17:41Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 14:22 UTC
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How can I move an element to the end of the body?

Using jQuery, I want some given element to be moved to the body, preferably to be the last element contained by it.

Imagine the following would be valid:

$('#myElement').moveToTheEndOfTheBody();

Thanks!

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