Does jQuerys .append(element) method auto-clone the element?

Question

When using .append(someHTMLElement) on a jQuery multiselection, does jQuery clone the element to append automatically?

Example:

var newElement = $("<p>Some text</p>");
var myElements = $(".multiselector").append(newElement);

Does this add newElement to all of the elements contained in myElements?

Answer 1

From the docs

The .append() method inserts the specified content as the last child of each element in the jQuery collection

So yes it copies to all selected elements.