surroundContents

domref

surroundContents

Moves content of a Range into a new node.

Syntax
range.surroundContents(newNode);
Parameters

newNode a Node

Example
range = document.createRange(); newNode = document.createElement("p"); range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0)); range.surroundContents(newNode);
Notes

surroundContents is equivalent to newNode.appendChild(range.extractContents());range.insertNode(newNode). After surrounding, the boundary points of the Range include newNode. (Hindered by http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135928 )

Specification

surroundContents

range.surroundContents(newNode);

range = document.createRange(); newNode = document.createElement("p"); range.selectNode(document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0)); range.surroundContents(newNode);

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