You can just create a div for every fith element and move the links into them using the append
method:
var wrapper = $('.wrapper');
var div;
$('a', wrapper).each(function(i,e){
if (i % 5 == 0) div = $('<div/>').addClass('slide').appendTo(wrapper);
div.append(e);
});
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/ybrxu/
You need to use jQuery slice with wrap
Check this question
Here's one way:
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/T6tu4/
$('div.wrapper > a').each(function(i) {
if( i % 5 == 0 ) {
$(this).nextAll().andSelf().slice(0,5).wrapAll('<div class="slide"></div>');
}
});
Here's another way:
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/T6tu4/1/
var a = $('div.wrapper > a');
for( var i = 0; i < a.length; i+=5 ) {
a.slice(i, i+5).wrapAll('<div class="slide"></div>');
}
Try this:
$(function(){
var curDiv = null;
var mainDiv = $("div.wrapper");
$("span", mainDiv).each(function(i, b){
if(i%5 == 0) {
curDiv = $("<div class='slide'/>").appendTo(mainDiv);
}
curDiv.append(b);
});
});
Use slice() to select the element subset then wrapAll() to wrap the div around them. Here's a function that does that.
var wrapEveryN = function(n, elements, wrapper) {
for (var i=0; i< elements.length; i+=n) {
elements.slice(i,i+n).wrapAll(wrapper);
}
}
wrapEveryN( 5, $(".wrapper a"), '<div class="slide"></div>' );
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/C5cHC/
Note that the second parameter of slice may go out of bounds, but jQuery seems to handle this automatically.
I think this would do that:
var links = $('.wrapper').children();
for (var i = 0, len = links.length; i < len; i += 5) {
links.slice(i, i + 5).wrapAll('<div class="slide"/>');
}