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MeltingDog
MeltingDog

Reputation: 15414

JQuery: wrapping variable's contents

I have a variable that contains a bunch of HTML that I retrieve from a HTML5 SQL database.

I can .append() this to an element in the DOM and it appears fine. But I want to .wrap() the HTML contents first, thus I have written:

content = $(content).wrap(function() {
                                     return '<div class="event_holder" />';
                                     });

$('#mydiv').append(content);

However, I get the error

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: ~HTML contents of variable~

I have also tried:

content = $(content).wrap('<div class="event_holder" />');

Would anyone know whats going on here and how I can correctly wrap this?

EDIT: the contents of 'content' is:

<input id="e1coords" class="coords" name="e1coords" type="hidden" value="-27.482359,153.024725">

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5405

Answers (3)

Arun P Johny
Arun P Johny

Reputation: 388316

The problem could be content = $(content).wrap('<div class="event_holder" />'); still returns the inner content not the wrapped element, you need to append the parent of the content.

Try

content = $(content).wrap('<div class="event_holder" />').parent();

Demo: Fiddle

Upvotes: 3

MeltingDog
MeltingDog

Reputation: 15414

I found out the because the content variable was actually retrieved from a (html5) database it was not part of the DOM, thus JQuery was having issues with it.

I did the wrap manually and it worked

content = '<div class="event_holder">' + content + '</div>';

Upvotes: 0

bipen
bipen

Reputation: 36531

i don't know why are you using callback of wrap() when you can do it directly

content = $(content).wrap('<div class="event_holder" />');

and it will be better if you can show us what actually the content contents..

updated

try this

content = $('#e1coords').wrap('<div class="event_holder" />');

OR

var content = $('#e1coords');
content = content.wrap('<div class="event_holder" />');

Upvotes: 0

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