I want to split articles (= HTML content) that I receive from a webservice in different DIVs, based on a HR tag.

I explain with an example, this is what I receive from the service:

<p>This is an article bla bla</p> <hr/> <p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p>

I want to make, based on the HR-tag:

<div><p>This is an article bla bla</p></div>
<div><p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p></div>

I tried different thinks but is doesn't work. How can I do that with Javascript or JQuery (or with another method ;-))?

I want to split articles (= HTML content) that I receive from a webservice in different DIVs, based on a HR tag.

I explain with an example, this is what I receive from the service:

<p>This is an article bla bla</p> <hr/> <p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p>

I want to make, based on the HR-tag:

<div><p>This is an article bla bla</p></div>
<div><p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p></div>

I tried different thinks but is doesn't work. How can I do that with Javascript or JQuery (or with another method ;-))?

• javascript
• jquery
• html
• split

2 Answers 2

Use split to create and array and loop through to create the divs.

var html = "<p>This is an article bla bla</p> <hr/> <p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p>";


$(html.split('<hr/>')).each(function(){
    $('#test').append('<div>'+this+'</div>')
})

Demo

Try -

var html = '<p>This is an article bla bla</p> <hr/> <p>this is the next page of the article blabla ...</p>'
var htmlarr = html.split('<hr/>');
html = html.replace(/<hr\/>/g,'');
$('body').append(html);

This will just remove all the <hr/>s then append the remaining contnet to the page.Which I think will achieve what you want without performing a split. You could do a split like this -

var htmlarr = html.split('<hr/>');

Which would leave you with an array containing the two bits of HTML you list in your question. You could add this to your page using -

$.each(htmlarr,function (index,value) {
   $('body').append(value); 
});

Demo - http://jsfiddle/cCR34/2