Change H3 to H2 with jquery keeping href and html elemens [duplicate]

Answer 1

Use .html() to keep all the HTML structure. text() just gets the plain text, and throws away all the tags.

$('.sideMenu h3').replaceWith(function () {
    return "
" + $(this).html() + "
";
});

To keep the classes, do:

$('.sideMenu h3').replaceWith(function() {
    return $("
", {
                "class", this.className,
                html: $(this).html();
            });
});

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