Question

I understand you can add insert blocks of html before and after a target using before(), insertBefore(), after() and insertAfter().

I tried to do something similar to this

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $("p").before("<div class='myContainer'>");
        $("p").after("</div>");
    });
</script>

<p>paragraph</p>

But the inject seems to automatically create closing tags for me, is there a way around this?

Cheers

Answer 1

There’s a function for that 🙂 Use .wrap(), like this:

$("p").wrap("<div class='myContainer'>");

This will wrap each <p> independent, you can see a demo here, it changes this:

<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>​

Into this:

<div class='myContainer'>
  <p>Paragraph 1</p>
</div>
<div class='myContainer'>
  <p>Paragraph 2</p>​
</div>