Wrap elements inside a div using jQuery

stig picture stig · Feb 15, 2012 · Viewed 28.7k times · Source

I have this:

<div>content element</div>
<div class="accordionTrigger">
  <div><h1>title</h1></div>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  ...
</div>
<div>content element</div>
<div>content element</div>

I need to wrap all the p-tags inside a div like this:

    <div>content element</div>
    <div class="accordionTrigger">
      <div><h1>title</h1></div>
      <div class="moreInfo">    
        <p>text</p>
        <p>text</p>
        <p>text</p>
        ...
      </div>
    </div>
    <div>content element</div>
    <div>content element</div>

can it be done with jQuery?


If I have more than one <div class="accordionTrigger"></div>, like this:

<div>content element</div>
<div class="accordionTrigger">
  <div><h1>title</h1></div>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  ...
</div>
<div>content element</div>
<div class="accordionTrigger">
  <div><h1>title</h1></div>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  ...
</div>

the result will be:

<div>content element</div>
<div class="accordionTrigger">
  <div><h1>title</h1></div>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  <p>text</p>
  ...
</div>
<div>content element</div>
<div class="accordionTrigger">
  <div><h1>title</h1></div>
</div>

can I avoid that?

Answer

Didier Ghys picture Didier Ghys · Feb 15, 2012

Check the .wrapAll() method:

$('.accordionTrigger p').wrapAll('<div class="moreInfo"></div>');

The wrapAll() method will wrap all the elements matched into another element (compared to the .wrap() method which wraps the matched elements individually)

DEMO