.replaceAll()

replaceAll ( target ) Returns: jQueryversion added: 1.2

  • target
    Type:
    A selector string, jQuery object, DOM element, or array of elements indicating which element(s) to replace.

Description: Replace each target element with the set of matched elements.

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.

Examples:

Example: Replace all the paragraphs with bold words. 

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>css demo</title>

  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  

<p>Hello</p>
<p>cruel</p>
<p>World</p>

<script>

$( "<b>Paragraph. </b>" ).replaceAll( "p" );

</script>

  
</body>
</html>

Demo: