JQuery - How to wrap each character from a string in spaces

Question

How can I convert div characters to spaces?

For example, I would like to convert this:

<div>
    Hello World
</div>

In it:

<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 have tried https://stackoverflow.com/a/1663591 / ... but converts spaces to spaces. I need to convert only characters to spaces:

$("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#replacethe and html()callback method 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>

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Answer 2

You can try using 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>

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Answer 3

:

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>

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Answer 4

$("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");
});

Answer 5

:

$("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 6

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)
}

Answer 7

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

<h1>Hello world</h1>

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