I\'m looking to vertically align text by adding
tags between characters with jQuery.
document.write("vertical text".split("").join("<br/>"));
Edit: Hole in one!
This builds on Sebastian H's answer, but I tested it and this works
var element = $( '#foo label' );
var newData = '';
var data = element.text();
var length = data.length;
var i = 0;
$( '#foo label' ).html("");
while( i < length )
{
$( '#foo label' ).append(data.charAt( i ) + "<br />")
i++;
}
Let's go golfing!
$('#foo label').html($('#foo label').text().replace(/(.)/g,"$1<br />"));
Completely untested, but the pattern in the regex looks like a boob.
Not tested, but it should work.
var element = $( '#foo label' );
var newData = '';
var data = element.text();
var length = data.length;
var i = 0;
while( i < length )
{
newData += data.charAt( i ) + '<br />';
i++;
}
element.html( newData );
Mr Kurt's answer works well for a single id, but if you want something more useful that can be applied to several elements try something like this:
$.each( $(".verticalText"), function () { $(this).html($(this).text().replace(/(.)/g, "$1<br />")) } );
Then just set class="verticalText"
on the elements you want to be formatted like this.
And as a bonus it keeps the boob regex.
Why use a while loop when you can use jQuery's builtin each method?
$.each(
$('#foo').text(), function(){
$('#foo').append(this + '
');
}
);
There. It works. You can test it.