How to strip out tags and wrap lines with and tags?

Question

This is what the HTML code looks like. I need to strip out the br tags and wrap the lines in paragraph tags (ie the lines with dates). Each date should be wrapped in its o

Answer 1

Edit: By using

tags in that manner your runining it's whole purpose instead you should try removing the
tags and placing the text inside

elements, which will have the same effect but will be semantically correct.

Edit2: I think you wanted it in the above way, just triple read your question and I think I gotcha!

var $p = $('.details p');
$p.contents()
  .filter(function() { return this.nodeType == 3; }) // Select all textnodes
  .wrap('
') // Place them inside paragraph elements

$('br', $p).remove(); // Remove all break elements

Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/garreh/UWDw5/1/