jQuery doesn’t support that out of performance and code size reasons:
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/14380 <http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/14380>
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1276#issuecomment-24526014
<https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1276#issuecomment-24526014>
Both reasons shouldn’t be a problem with the native DOM.
> On Jan 20, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Glen Huang <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> To generalize the use case, when you have a bunch of nodes, some of which
>> need to be inserted before a node, and some of which after it, you are
>> likely to want `replaceWith` could accept the context node as an argument.
>
> This sound somewhat reasonable but I haven't been able to reproduce
> this in existing libraries. E.g. in Jquery
>
> $("div").replaceWith([$("div"), "<b>test</b>"])
>
> ends up as just <b>test</b>...
>
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