jQuery - How to wrap each character from a string in spans

Question

How can I convert the characters of a div into spans?

For example, I'd like to convert this:

<div>
    Hello World
</div>

Into this:

<div>
    <span>H</span>
    <span>e</span>
    <span>l</span>
    <span>l</span>
    <span>o</span>
    <span>W</span>
    <span>o</span>
    <span>r</span>
    <span>l</span>
    <span>d</span>
</div>

I've tried this StackOverflow suggestion , but that converts spaces into spans. What I need is to convert only characters to spans:

$("div").each(function (index) {
    var characters = $(this).text().split("");

    $this = $(this);
    $this.empty();
    $.each(characters, function (i, el) {
        $this.append("<span>" + el + "</span");
    });
 });

Answer 1

You can use String#replace method and html() method with a callback to reduce the code.

$("div").html(function(index, html) {
  return html.replace(/\S/g, '<span>$&</span>');
});

 $("div").html(function(index, html) { return html.replace(/\\S/g, '<span>$&</span>'); });

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div> Hello World </div>

Answer 2

You can try with this simple JavaScript .

 (function() { var div, i, span = ""; div = document.querySelectorAll("div")[0]; for (i = 0; i < div.innerText.length; i++) { if (div.innerText[i] !== " ") { span += "<span>"; span += div.innerText[i]; span += "</span>"; } } div.innerHTML = span; }());

 <div> Hello World </div>

Answer 3

I'd prefer to use regular expression:

 var txt = $('#container').text(); var newTxt = txt.replace(/\\w/g,function(c){ return '<span>'+c+'</span>'; }) $('#container').html(newTxt);

 span { display:inline-block; background-color:#dfdfdf; color:#aaa; padding:3px; margin:3px; border-radius:3px; }

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div id="container"> Hello World </div>

Answer 4

 var textWrapper = document.querySelector('h1'); textWrapper.innerHTML = textWrapper.textContent.replace(/\\S/g, "<span class='letter'>$&</span>");

 <h1>Hello world</h1>

Answer 5

$("div").each(function (index) {
var characters = $(this).text().split("");

$this = $(this);
$this.empty();
$.each(characters, function (i, el) {
if(el != ' ')
$this.append("<span>" + el + "</span");
});

put a condition for space

Answer 6

try:

$("div").each(function (index) {
  var characters = $(this).text().split("");
  characters = characters.filter(v => v != '');
  $(this).empty();
  for(var i =0; i < characters.length; i++) {
      $(this).append("<span>" + characters[i] + "</span");
  }    
});

Answer 7

tried to write as little as I can

html

<div>
    HelloWorld
</div>

js

var d=$("div");
var text=d.text();
text=$.trim(text);
d.empty();

for(i=0;i<text.length;i++){
    var span=$("<span></span>");
    span.text(text[i]);
    d.append(span)
}