I am trying to restructure elements. The problem I face is that the elements do not have unique classes or IDs. So if, for example, a .prependTo
is being called, it moves obviously all matching elements. HTML looks like this (important: real scenario contains hundreds of <li>
elements):
<div id="top-element">
<ul>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example</div>
<div class="text3">example</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example</div>
<div class="text3">example</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example</div>
<div class="text3">example</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
So I want to move text3 as the first child of text-parent. But only in its own parent element. So text3 should not move to the other <li>
elements. I have tried this, but it's not correct, it still crosses all elements:
$('.text3').parent('.text-parent').prependTo('.text-parent');
How do I limit the function to its parents?
Your code is wrong because it select all .text-parent
and insert every one in another. You need to loop through .text3
using .each()
and in function select relevant parent of elements.
$('.text3').each(function(){
$(this).parent().prepend(this);
// Or
$(this).parent('.text-parent').prepend(this);
// Or
$(this).prependTo($(this).parent('.text-parent'));
});
$('.text3').each(function(){
$(this).parent().prepend(this);
});
.text-parent {border: 1px solid #000}
.text-parent > .text3 {color: red}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="top-element">
<ul>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example2</div>
<div class="text3">example3</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example2</div>
<div class="text3">example3</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="image"></div>
<div class="text-parent">
<div class="text1">example</div>
<div class="text2">example2</div>
<div class="text3">example3</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>