For your first question, you can use wrap().
http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/wrap
For your second question, if you didn't know, and ID must begin with a
letter, not a number.
With that in mind, you can do something like:
var counter = 1;
$("span").each(function() {
this.id = 'id_'+counter;
counter++;
});
This will make ID's for each span (from top to document first) like
"id_1", "id_2", etc.
To retrieve an ID like that, you can do:
$("span").click(function() {
var id = this.id.split('_')[1]; // 1, 2, 3...
alert(id);
});
On Aug 14, 9:01 am, Breno Gazzola <breno.gazz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I just started using jquery and I'm having some
> difficulty figuring out how to do two things.
>
> First, how do I get this:
> <b>Hello</b>
> To become this?
> <span><b>Hello</b></span>
> I know how to do $("b").before("span"), but $("/b").after("span") is
> not working.
>
> Second, how do I get this:
> <span>Hello</span>
> <span>Hello</span>
> To become this?
> <span id="1">Hello</span>
> <span id="2">Hello</span>
> I tried using a counter and replaceWith(), but this method returns a
> DOM not an jquery element so .attr(counter) wont work.
