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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:45:20+00:00

I am building a universal wrapper for several different external sites that would build

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I am building a “universal wrapper” for several different external sites that would build a nav and footer with jquery and xml.

My problem: Since the script will be used on multiple sites that were built by other people, I need to build a container out just inside the opening and closing body tags. I have been able to target the body to prepend <div id="wrapper">, but I need to close the div somehow and trying to append only </div> does not work.

This is what I’m trying to do:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("body").append("</div>");
});

My question: Is there a way to render </div> on its own?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you looked at .wrapInner()? It will allow you to wrap all of the contents of <body></body> with a starting and ending tag:

    $("body").wrapInner("<div id='wrapper'></div>");

    That will result in:

    <body>
  <div id="wrapper">
    <!-- original markup here -->
  </div>
</body>

    Caution: One thing I noticed was the fact that jQuery will create the wrapper twice if the script is ran from within the body tags.

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