How do I wrap text nested in an anchor tag, within a span?

Question

I have the following markup:

<div class="print">
  <p><a href="/">Printable Format</a></p>
</div>

However, I want to wrap "Printable Format" within a :

<div class="print">
  <p><a href="/"><span>Printable Format</span></a></p>
</div>

I have looked at several examples, but they don't seem to accomplish what I'm looking for.

Thank you in advance!

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Answer 1

Use .contents() with .wrap()

// 
$('.print').find('a').contents().wrap('<span/>')
// same as $('.print a').contents().wrap('<span/>')

or wrapInner() - which does the same thing

$('.print').find('a').wrapInner('<span/>')
// same as $('.print a').wrapInner('<span/>')

Pure JS example for @Alfo

// returns an array of elements
var dtag = document.getElementsByClassName('print');
// gets first anchor tag inside first class=print
var atag = dtag[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
// add span tag
atag.innerHTML = '<span>' + atag.innerHTML+ '</span>';

If you want to do multiple elements, you will have to loop through the arrays

http://jsfiddle.net/KkAkk/

Answer 2

$('.print a').html(function(i, h){
     return '<span>' + h + '</span>';
});

Answer 3

Assuming you want to do this with jQuery:

var $span = $( "<span></span>" ), // Create element
    $link = $( '.print > p > a' );

$span.text( $link.text() );
$link.html( $span );

Answer 4

$('.print a').wrapInner('<span/>');​​​​​​​​​​​​

Will produce:

<a href="/"><span>Printable Format</span></a>

Here is the jQuery reference: http://api.jquery.com/wrapInner/

Here is my Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/tracyfu/bHVtg/

Answer 5

With Pure Javascript you can try this

var elem = document.getElementsByClassName('print')[0]
                   .getElementsByTagName('a')[0] ;

var html = elem.innerHTML;

elem.innerHTML = '<span class="red">'+ html + '</span>' ;

Working Fiddle​

Answer 6

Set the break-word property to the span.

Example HTML:

<span class="wrapped-link"><a href="#">my link</a>

Example CSS

.wrapped-link{
    word-break: break-word;
}