.replaceAll()
.replaceAll( target ) Returns: jQuery
Description: Replace each target element with the set of matched elements.
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version added: 1.2.replaceAll( target )
targetA selector expression indicating which element(s) to replace.
The .replaceAll() method is corollary to .replaceWith(), but with the source and target reversed. Consider this DOM structure:
<div class="container"> <div class="inner first">Hello</div> <div class="inner second">And</div> <div class="inner third">Goodbye</div> </div>
We can create an element, then replace other elements with it:
$('<h2>New heading</h2>').replaceAll('.inner');
This causes all of them to be replaced:
<div class="container"> <h2>New heading</h2> <h2>New heading</h2> <h2>New heading</h2> </div>
Or, we could select an element to use as the replacement:
$('.first').replaceAll('.third');
This results in the DOM structure:
<div class="container"> <div class="inner second">And</div> <div class="inner first">Hello</div> </div>
From this example, we can see that the selected element replaces the target by being moved from its old location, not by being cloned.
Example:
Replace all the paragraphs with bold words.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>cruel</p>
<p>World</p>
<script>$("<b>Paragraph. </b>").replaceAll("p"); // check replaceWith() examples</script>
</body>
</html>