I have a very long text wrapped in a single <p>
tag. like this:
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod...
</p>
I need to break up that text into smaller paragraph chunks by using javascript or jquery to insert </p><p>
into certain parts of the text, Effectively ending the last paragraph and then starting a new one (I already have some javascript which identifies where I want to insert the new HTML - that works fine). I've been using insertAdjacentHTML() to add the new paragraph tags:
TheElmToInsertNextTo.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin','</p><p>');
The trouble is: the browser tries to fix my partial html and keeps wrapping it in additional <p>
tags like this:
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor
<p></p><p></p>
sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod...
</p>
As a result: the extra <p>
tags break my pagination script (from easyPaginate) which otherwise works great.
Is there a better way to insert partial HTML without the browser "fixing" it by adding additional <p>
tags?
(the issue occurs in both firefox and chrome)