Question

Of course, there are a whole range of possible errors relating to document validity, but my immediate stumbling block occurs when changing a paragraph (p) into an address element. My current method is (more-or-less):

var p = $('p#test'); p.replaceWith('<address>' + p.html() + '</address>'); 

but that fails for this specific case; it works perfectly for p -> blockquote or h2 -> h3. Firebug suggests that a self-closing element (<address/>) has been added to the document, for some reason.

Can anyone spot the bug or suggest an alternative method?

Answer 1

var p = $('p#test'); var a = $('<address>').     append(p.contents()); p.replaceWith(a); 

Your solution is subject to all sorts of horrible HTML escaping issues and possibly injection attacks.