Ah, interesting. Thanks for the clarification, and glad you got it
working!
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Julian Birch wrote:
> Hi, I did, in fact, want to wrap the child elements. These I then
> manipulate for positioning. The error I made was a rookie mistake,
> using "span" rather than "<span></span>". In the absence of an
> element tag in the wrap, jQuery then proceeds to analyse the
> existing tags, finding the deepest element, it duplicated it and
> used it to wrap the elements.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian
>
> 2008/11/7 Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> hi Julian,
>
> You're asking jQuery to wrap each child element in a span. I'm
> guessing you might rather want to wrap a single span around all of
> those child elements, in which case you would use .wrapAll()
>
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedberg
> www.englishrules.com
> www.learningjquery.com
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Julian Birch wrote:
>
>>
>> Could someone explain to me why the following page shows four text
>> boxes? Seems like it should be a relatively inoffensive operation.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Julian.
>>
>>
>>
>> <html>
>>
>> <head>
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery-1.2.6.js"></script>
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>
>> $(document).ready(function() {
>>
>> elements = $("div > *"); elements.wrap("span");
>>
>> });
>>
>> </script>
>>
>> </head>
>>
>> <body>
>>
>> <form>
>>
>> <div class='Box'>
>>
>>
>> <label for='repeat'>Repeat</label>
>>
>> <span>
>>
>> <input id='repeat' type='text' value='Box1' />
>>
>> </span>
>>
>> </div>
>>
>> </form>
>>
>> </body>
>>
>> </html>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
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