Add div to the date showing in html and separate the days and month

Question

I have some list of dates and I want to add div to the date and separate the days and months to a different div.

<div class="campaign">30/11/2016 - 
  <a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>
</div>

I want to select and add div to the date. I also want to separate the days and months like this. Any help appreciated in advance.

<div class="campaign"> 
  <div class="date-wrapper">
    <div class="date">30</div>
    <div class="month">Nov</div>
    <div class="year">2016</div>
  </div> 
  <a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>
</div>

I have tried the append method but I am not able select the date and store in a variable.

Answer 1

You can use .prepend( function ) to insert new HTML content in first of element.

var monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
  "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
];

$(".campaign").prepend(function(){
  var dates = $(this).contents()[0].nodeValue.trim().match(/\d+/g);
  $(this).contents()[0].nodeValue = "";
  return '\
    <div class="date-wrapper">\
    <div class="date">'+dates[1]+'</div>\
    <div class="month">'+monthNames[+dates[0]-1]+'</div>\
    <div class="year">'+dates[2]+'</div></div> \
    </div>';
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="campaign">11/30/2016 - 
  <a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>
</div>

Answer 2

Bit late to the party. My solution uses date parsing to extract date results. Prepending divs is much simpler in this case.

var months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
  "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
];

var campaign = $($('.campaign')[0]);
var dateString = campaign.text().split('-')[0];
var date = new Date(Date.parse(dateString));

campaign.contents()[0].nodeValue = "";
campaign.prepend('<div class="year">'+date.getFullYear()+'</div>');
campaign.prepend('<div class="month">'+months[date.getMonth()]+'</div>');
campaign.prepend('<div class="date">'+date.getDate()+'</div>');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="campaign">11/30/2016 - 
<a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>
</div>

Answer 3

Try it.

$('.campaign').each(function(){

 var dateStr = $(this).text().split('/'),
  dateDD = dateStr[0],
  dateMM = dateStr[1],
  dateYY = dateStr[2];

 function GetMonthName(monthNumber) {

  var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Avr', 'Mai', 'Juin', 'Juil', 'Août', 'Sept', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
  return months[monthNumber - 1];

 }

 var newDate = '<div class="campaign1">'+'<div class="date-wrapper">'+'<div class="date">'+dateStr[0]+'</div>'+ '  <div class="month">'+GetMonthName(dateMM) + '</div> ' + '<div class="year">'+dateStr[2]+'</div>'+'</div>'+'<a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>'+'</div>';
 $('.test').append(newDate);

});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="campaign">30/11/2016</div>  
<a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>


<div class="test"></test>

Answer 4

Check whether this is working for you?

$('#convert').click(function(){
  let date = $('.campaign').text().split('/');
  
  let dateDiv ='<div class="date">'+date[1]+'</div>';
  let monthDiv = '<div class="month">'+date[0]+'</div>';
  let yearDiv = '<div class="year">'+date[2]+'</div></div>';
  
  $('.campaign').html(dateDiv + monthDiv + yearDiv)
  

})

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="campaign">11/30/2016 - 
<a href="#" target="_blank">Dummy Text</a>
</div>

<button id="convert">Convert</button>