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Q&A Adding elements to wrapper after calling wrap doesn't work

I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call wrap. Code <html>...

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Moshi‭ · last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Moshi‭ · 2023-02-07T07:47:27Z (almost 2 years ago)
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I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call `wrap`.
## Code
```html
<html>
<body>
<p>Text</p>
</body>
</html>
```
```js
const wrapper = $('<div class="wrapper"></div>');
~~const newText = $('<p>Generated Text</p>');~~
$('p').wrap(wrapper);
wrapper.prepend(newText);
```
## Expected result
```html
<div class="wrapper">
<p>New Text</p>
<p>Text</p>
</div>
```
## Actual result
```html
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Text</p>
</div>
```
Does anyone know why this happens? I could just re-select the wrapper div, and that works, but it seems pretty inefficient.

I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call `wrap`.
## Code
```html
<html>
<body>
<p>Text</p>
</body>
</html>
```
```js
const wrapper = $('<div class="wrapper"></div>');
const newText = $('<p>New Text</p>');
$('p').wrap(wrapper);
wrapper.prepend(newText);
```
## Expected result
```html
<div class="wrapper">
<p>New Text</p>
<p>Text</p>
</div>
```
## Actual result
```html
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Text</p>
</div>
```
Does anyone know why this happens? I could just re-select the wrapper div, and that works, but it seems pretty inefficient.

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Adding elements to wrapper after calling wrap doesn't work

I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call `wrap`.

## Code

```html
<html>
<body>
  <p>Text</p>
</body>
</html>
```

```js
const wrapper = $('<div class="wrapper"></div>');
const newText = $('<p>Generated Text</p>');

$('p').wrap(wrapper);
wrapper.prepend(newText);
```

## Expected result

```html
<div class="wrapper">
  <p>New Text</p>
  <p>Text</p>
</div>
```

## Actual result

```html
<div class="wrapper">
  <p>Text</p>
</div>
```

Does anyone know why this happens? I could just re-select the wrapper div, and that works, but it seems pretty inefficient.

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