What is Join() in jquery? for example:
var newText = $("p").text().split(" ").join("</span> <span>");
What is Join() in jquery? for example:
var newText = $("p").text().split(" ").join("</span> <span>");
That's not a jQuery function - it's the regular Array.join function.
It converts an array to a string, putting the argument between each element.
You would probably use your example like this
var newText = "<span>" + $("p").text().split(" ").join("</span> <span>") + "</span>";
This will put span tags around all the words in you paragraphs, turning
<p>Test is a demo.</p>
into
<p><span>Test</span> <span>is</span> <span>a</span> <span>demo.</span></p>
I do not know what the practical use of this could be.
The practical use of this construct? It is a javascript replaceAll() on strings.
var s = 'stackoverflow_is_cool';
s = s.split('_').join(' ');
console.log(s);
will output:
stackoverflow is cool
join is not a jQuery function .Its a javascript function.
The join() method joins the elements of an array into a string, and returns the string.The elements will be separated by a specified separator. The default separator is comma (,).
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_join.asp
I use join to separate the word in array with "and, or , / , &"
EXAMPLE
HTML
<p>London Mexico Canada</p>
<div></div>
JS
newText = $("p").text().split(" ").join(" or ");
$('div').text(newText);
Results
London or Mexico or Canada
A practical example using a jQuery example might be
var today = new Date();
$('#'+[today.getMonth()+1, today.getDate(), today.getFullYear()].join("_")).whatever();
I do that in a calendar tool that I am using, this way on the page load, I can do certain things with today's date.