jQuery .wrap() isn't working

Question

I\'m probably doing something wrong but I\'ve tried all sorts of things and can\'t seem to get a collection of jQuery objects wrapped. The following just outputs the link HTML,

Answer 1

jquery .wrap() returns the INNER element back to you, so it looks like nothing changed.

$("
").wrap('') 

===> 

[
]

which looks like it didn't work.

but:

$("
").wrap('').parent()

===>

[
]

it actually did work.