How to wrap an <ul> in another <ul>?

I have an unordered list that I would like to wrap inside another unordered list in jQuery, using the following code:

$('ul.innerlist').prepend('<ul><li>');
$('ul.innerlist').append('</li></ul>');

However, rather than the first line creating the ope开发者_C百科ning tags and the second creating closing tags (and wrapping the .innerlist), the first line appears to create both open and close tags, resulting in this

<ul>
  <li></li>
</ul>
<ul class="innerlist">
  <li></li>
</ul>

Instead of this:

<ul>
  <li>
    <ul class="innerlist">
      <li></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

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This uses jQuery's wrap() method to wrap the selected elements with the elements you provide.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/patrick_dw/bD8LQ/

$('ul.innerlist').wrap('<ul><li></li></ul>');

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See http://api.jquery.com/wrap/

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try the following:

$('ul.innerlist').each(function(i,v){v=$('<ul><li></li></ul>').append(v);});

or the wrap function.