I know we could get the node name by using nodeName, but is it possible to set the nodeName using jquery as well? basically i wanted to chnage the casing of node name from uppercase to lowercase.
Thanks a lot
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I know we could get the node name by using nodeName, but is it possible to set the nodeName using jquery as well? basically i wanted to chnage the casing of node name from uppercase to lowercase.
Thanks a lot
You can’t change the nodeName, but you could create a new node with the different name, copy attributes across, then replace one with the other.
jQuery makes it hard to distinguish between attributes and properties, you may be able to use the IE proprietary outerHTML property (which is supported in a few other browsers) and string manipulation, but that won’t work on the web in general.
If there are many such nodes, then a global replace of “