html - With Nokogiri, how do you wrap the text contents of an element with a new tag? -

i have nokogiri::xml::element in looks this:

<div class="berg">this text!</div> 

what want extract text div (which nokogiri element) , wrap text new tag looks this:

<div class="berg"><span>this text!</span></div> 

the nokogiri .wrap functions seems wrap tags, not text contents new tag, wondering how wrap inter tag contents. cheers.

edit: took answer below , did in 1 line:

      tag.inner_html = "<span>#{tag.inner_html}</span>" 

you can set inner_html of div element. here's working example:

html = '<div class="berg">this text!</div>' doc = nokogiri::html.fragment(html)  berg = doc.at('div.berg')    # or xpath, or whatever method choose  # wrap text in <span> berg.inner_html = "<span>#{berg.text}</span>"  puts doc  #=> <div class="berg"><span>this text!</span></div> 

the important part use of inner_html, adding in <span> element , putting existing text element inside it.