<div>
What you have would only work if the div was truly empty, no carriage returns, no tabs, no spaces.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://jsfiddle.net/tmLw9e56/1/" rel="ugc">https://jsfiddle.net/tmLw9e56/1/</a>
</div>


What you have would only work if the div was truly empty, no carriage returns, no tabs, no spaces.

https://jsfiddle.net/tmLw9e56/1/ [https://jsfiddle.net/tmLw9e56/1/]

<div>
Thanks. But I need the jquery to work on my html. It is auto-generated so I can't intervene on its formatting.<br />
<br />
any ideas?
</div>


Thanks. But I need the jquery to work on my html. It is auto-generated so I can't intervene on its formatting.

any ideas?

<div>
it's because it has (space) between the &lt;div&gt; and&lt;/div&gt; tag, once removed all the space it worked :)<br />
<br />
existing DIV <br />
&lt;div class=&quot;newprice&quot; style=&quot;padding-bottom: 10px; width:200px; height:200px; background-color:#ff0080&quot;&gt;<wbr /><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;<br />
Empty DIV<br />
&lt;div class=&quot;newprice&quot; style=&quot;padding-bottom: 10px; width:200px; height:200px; background-color:#ff0080&quot;&gt;<wbr />&lt;/div&gt;
</div>


it's because it has (space) between the <div> and</div> tag, once removed all the space it worked :)

existing DIV
<div class="newprice" style="padding-bottom: 10px; width:200px; height:200px; background-color:#ff0080">
                                                          </div>
Empty DIV
<div class="newprice" style="padding-bottom: 10px; width:200px; height:200px; background-color:#ff0080"></div>

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I tried it on jsfiddle: <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/lupocatttivo/tmLw9e56/" rel="ugc">https://jsfiddle.net/lupoc<wbr />atttivo/tm<wbr />Lw9e56/</a><br />
but it doesn't seem to work :(<br />
<br />
any ideas?<br />
<br />
thanks
</div>
</div>


I tried it on jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/lupocatttivo/tmLw9e56/ (https://jsfiddle.net/lupocatttivo/tmLw9e56/)
but it doesn't seem to work :(

any ideas?

thanks

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