jQuery Chain Jumping?
<p>jQuery is pretty much a big selector transversing engine with useful stuff hung on it. With all that power I can't believe there is not a way to jump around a chain. Therefore I'm assuming I am ignorant in the manner of accomplishing this.</p>

<p>I want to be able to fork a chain in order to make a modification, and then return to the root chain.</p>

<p>Example:</p>

<pre><code>$('#clone-container')
    .clone()
    .find('#clone-topic')         // fork
        .attr('id', 'new-topic')
                                  // return to root chain (how?)
    .find('#clone-body')          // fork
        .attr('id', 'new-body')
    .attr('id', 'new-container')  // return to root chain (how?)
    .append('body');
</code></pre>

<p>I hope that made at least a little bit of sense. :)</p>

<p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
