Question

trying to take this content:

<div class="content">one,two,three</div>
<div class="content">four,five,six</div>
<div class="content">seven,eight,nine</div>

and .split and .join using jQuery’s each.

$('.content').each(function() {
    var mydata = $(this).text().split(',').join(", ");
    $(this).text(mydata);
});

fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZXgx2

Answer 1

Of course you can use split and join:

$(".content").text(function(i, val) {
    return val.split(",").join(", ");
});

But I’d recommend to use regular expression instead:

$(".content").text(function(i, val) {
    return val.replace(/,/g, ", ");
});

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/ZXgx2/6/