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replaceAll( selector )

Replaces the elements matched by the specified selector with the matched elements.
This function is the complement to replaceWith() which does the same task with the parameters reversed.
Arguments:
selectorSelector
The elements to find and replace the matched elements with.

Examples:
Replace all the paragraphs with bold words.

$("<b>Paragraph. </b>").replaceAll("p"); // check replaceWith() examples


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="../jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("<b>Paragraph. </b>").replaceAll("p"); // check replaceWith() examples
  });
  </script>
  
</head>
<body>
  <p>Hello</p>
  <p>cruel</p>
  <p>World</p>
</body>
</html>

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