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HTML

<ul id="coll-selected-list" class="droptrue sort-drop ui-sortable">
      <li class="sorted">apple</li>
      <li class="sorted">pear</li>
      <li class="sorted">banana</li>
      <li class="sorted">grape</li>
      <li class="sorted">guava</li>
</ul>

<ul id="coll-grouped-list">
</ul>
                                                    <button id="clonebutton">Clone</button>

JavaScript

$("#clonebutton").click(function(){
$("#coll-selected-list li:contains('banana')").clone().appendTo("#coll-grouped-list");}