Change tag using javascript [duplicate]

Answer 1

Assumption: The span you want to replace is wrapped in a div with id "foo"

In pure javascript you could do something like:

 var original_html = document.getElementById('foo').innerHTML;

 original_html = original_html.replace("", "
");

 original_html = original_html.replace(new RegExp(""+$), ")
 document.getElementById('foo').innerHTML=original_html;

If however you can not necessarily expect the span to be tightly wrapped by an element you can consistently get (by id or otherwise), the javascript becomes fairly complex. In either case, the real answer here is: use jQuery.