What is the best way to delete a parent div without losing its inherited CSS properties?

My current objective involves the following:

<div id="table">
<div id="user"></div>
<div id="user1"></div>
</div>

Upon clicking a button, the following actions take place:

$("#body").append("<div id=\"user-wrap\"></div>");
$('#user').appendTo($('#user-wrap'));
$('#user1').appendTo($('#user-wrap'));
$('#user-wrap').appendTo($('#table'));

Subsequently, a moz-transform is applied to user-wrap. However, in order to apply another transform, the userwrap div must be removed. This causes issues with preserving the transforms. While I have managed to address this by storing values separately and reapplying them, the problem arises when scale transformations are applied - resulting in added distance between the child elements. How can this issue be resolved?

In summary, my aim is to implement transforms on a group of children within a div, then remove the div while maintaining the scale/rotate and spacing between the children. Any assistance from JavaScript wizards and CSS experts would be greatly appreciated! ;)

Answer №1

Overcoming all obstacles:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script type='text/javascript' src='jquery-1.5.1.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>

    function rearrangeElements() {
        //EDIT: or if ($('#table div:first-child').attr('id') == 'user')
        if ($('#table div:first-child').html() == 'USER') {
            $('body').append('<div id=\'userWrap\'>USER-WRAP</div>');
            $('#user').css('font-size',Math.floor(Math.random()*42)+'px').appendTo($('#userWrap'));
            $('#user1').css('font-size',Math.floor(Math.random()*42)+'px').appendTo($('#userWrap'));
            $('#userWrap').appendTo($('#table'));
        } else { 
            $('#user').appendTo($('#table'));
            $('#user1').appendTo($('#table'));
            $('#userWrap').remove();
        }
    }

</script>

</head>

<body>
<div id="table">
    TABLE
    <div id="user">USER</div>
    <div id="user1">USER1</div>
</div>
<button onClick='rearrangeElements(); ' >TOGGLE</button>
</body>
</html>

Example:

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