jQuery: how to change tag name?

Question

jQuery: how to change tag name?

For example:

    $1

I need

    $1

<         


        

Answer 1

You can replace any HTML markup by using jQuery's .replaceWith() method.

example: http://jsfiddle.net/JHmaV/

Ref.: .replaceWith

If you want to keep the existing markup, you could use code like this:

$('#target').replaceWith('' + $('#target').html() +'')