How to create parent element?

Question

How to create a parent tag within an element with jQuery, for example, having this original structure:

<p>texto</p>

After function jQuery would look like this:

<a href='#'>
    <p>texto</p>
</a>

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

$('p').wrapAll('<a href="#" />');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<p>texto</p>