Question

I have a page with some HTML on which I need to get hold of to wrap an additional span tag around with a class on it.

<span class="VIEWBOX" id="_Datacomp_c_importantnote">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. vestibulum vel tellus. Morbi suscipit enim ac <BR>
</span>

I cannot use the class / ID that is in the parent span so i need to create a new one.

I have written

var innnerNoteText = $('#_Datacomp_c_importantnote').text();
innerNoteText.wrap('<span class="noteText"></span>');

But this isn’t working, any help would be great!

Answer 1

Try:

$('#_Datacomp_c_importantnote').wrapInner('<span class="noteText"></span>');

http://api.jquery.com/wrapInner/