jquery wrapping groups of adjacent elements

Question

I have a cms that lets users insert blocks of content on a page. There are different types of content block available to the user and they can be inserted in any order. An e

Answer 1

The fiddle is here: http://jsfiddle.net/jdelight/XutA6/5/ Here's a possible solution using css which lets you style the blocks with a single background colour and border. The HTML would be something like this:

    
this is block 1
    
this is block 2
    
this is block 3
    
this is block 4
    
this is block 5

And the CSS would be:

            /* style all blocks with the required background colour and border */
        .block {
            background: #eee;
            color: #000;
            border: 1px solid red;
            border-bottom: 0;
            padding: 20px;
            width: 400px;
            border-radius: 20px;
            /* remove the rounded corners from he bottom left/right */
            border-bottom-left-radius:0;
            border-bottom-right-radius:0;
            position: relative;
        }
        /* style all adjacent blocks and remove the radius - so the top block has a radius and the others don't */
        .block + .block {
            border-radius: 0;
            border-top: 0;
        }

        /* create a cheeky block with content after which sits below all blocks */
        /* so it's hidden from all the blocks above it apart from the very bottom one (see bottom: -10px) */
        /* then style the rounded corners on that one */
        .block::after {
            content:'.';
            display: block;
            background: red;
            height: 10px;
            position: absolute;
            border-bottom: 1px solid red;
            border-left:  1px solid red;
            border-right:  1px solid red;
            bottom: -10px;
            width: 440px;
            background: #eee;
            left:-1px;
            border-bottom-left-radius:10px;
            border-bottom-right-radius:10px;
        }