Change node type

No, you can't actually change it, but you can replace them with a new element using the replaceWith() method:

$("a").replaceWith("<input>");

If there are any attributes that you want to keep, you'll need to manually set them:

$("a").replaceWith(function() {
    return $("<input>", {
        class: this.className,
        value: this.innerHTML
    });
});

Changing an A element to an INPUT element isn't changing the type, it is changing the tagName. According to the DOM 2 Core specification, an element's tagName is readonly, so no, you can't set it.

However, you can replace an element with a different element, provided it is valid in the DOM.


Using standard JavaScript's ChildNode.replaceWith() method can do this. Run example.

var element = document.querySelector("span");
var elementInnerHTML = element.innerHTML;
var newElement = document.createElement("h1");
newElement.innerHTML = elementInnerHTML;

element.replaceWith(newElement);
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
  <title>hightekk.com</title>
</head>
<body>
  <span>
    Hello World
  </span>
</body>
</html>

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