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copied!<h1>jQuery.replaceTagName</h1> <p>The following is a jQuery plugin to replace the tag name of DOM elements.</p> <h2>Source</h2> <pre><code>(function($) { $.fn.replaceTagName = function(replaceWith) { var tags = [], i = this.length; while (i--) { var newElement = document.createElement(replaceWith), thisi = this[i], thisia = thisi.attributes; for (var a = thisia.length - 1; a >= 0; a--) { var attrib = thisia[a]; newElement.setAttribute(attrib.name, attrib.value); }; newElement.innerHTML = thisi.innerHTML; $(thisi).after(newElement).remove(); tags[i] = newElement; } return $(tags); }; })(window.jQuery); </code></pre> <h3>Minified Source</h3> <pre><code>(function(e){e.fn.replaceTagName=function(t){var n=[],r=this.length;while(r--){var i=document.createElement(t),s=this[r],o=s.attributes;for(var u=o.length-1;u>=0;u--){var a=o[u];i.setAttribute(a.name,a.value)}i.innerHTML=s.innerHTML;e(s).after(i).remove();n[r]=i}return e(n)}})(window.jQuery); </code></pre> <h2>Usage</h2> <p>Include the above minified source in your javascript after jQuery.</p> <p>Then you can use the plugin like this:</p> <pre><code>$('div').replaceTagName('span'); // replace all divs with spans </code></pre> <p>Or in your case this:</p> <pre><code>$('td').replaceTagName('th'); </code></pre> <p>jQuery selectors work as expected</p> <pre><code>$('.replace_us').replaceTagName('span'); // replace all elements with "replace_us" class with spans $('#replace_me').replaceTagName('div'); // replace the element with the id "replace_me" </code></pre> <h2>More resources</h2> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/xkt5q/2/">jsFiddle with Qunit tests</a></p>

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