How to replace link with list element and then add new link in IE7/8 with jQuery?

I can't control how the HTML is generated and need to put a string of links into a list and then add new links for each item.

I have simplified the code at http://jsfiddle.net/jhASu/ and it works in Chrome/Firefox and IE9 but not in IE 7 and 8 (no new links are generated). What could be t开发者_如何学运维he cause of this?

Thanks in advance.

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http://jsfiddle.net/jhASu/11/

This works I would extract your function a little bit more though: This only adds the anchor to one like you wanted based on the preset value.

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Is this what you had in mind?

$('#div1').find('a').wrap('<ul />').each(function() {
    $(this).wrap('<li>');
});