Question

I want to replace every link by an input box whose value is the URL of the link. I would like to use the jQuery replaceAll() function. The standard format is

$(content).replaceAll(target);

My question is: how do you refer to the target object? In other words, in the following code, what should I replace TheCurrentLink with?

$('<input>').attr('value', TheCurrentLink.href}).replaceAll($("a"));

Answer 1

You need to do something more like this:

$('a').each(function(){
    var $a = $(this);
    $a.replaceWith($('<input/>').attr('value', $a.attr('href')));
});