How to wrap each word of an element in a span tag?

Question

$(\"div.date\")
    .contents()
    .filter(
        function(){
            return this.nodeType != 1; 
        })
    .wrap(\"\");

I

Answer 1

It's gonna be a little more complicated than that. You're gonna have to find out all the words and re-append them to your element, wrapped in a span.

var words = $("p").text().split(" ");
$("p").empty();
$.each(words, function(i, v) {
    $("p").append($("").text(v));
});

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