jQuery JSON prepend / append unclosed tag rather than full tag only once for set of elements

Question

jQuery - is it possible to dynamically wrap a bunch of generated <li> elements (fetched via JSON) appended to a div id with <ol>, for example?

I know of the wrap() function, but that seems to do it for each element of the li. Applying the prepend("<ol>") automatically closes the tag before the each / append() loop goes through

Answer 1

var string = "<ol>";
$.each(json, function(i, item) {
  string += "<li>" + item + "</li>";
});
string += "</ol>";
$("#myDiv").html(string);

No?

Answer 2

Instead of .wrap() you can use .wrapAll() here, like this:

myLICollection.wrapAll('<ol></ol>');

Since you seem to already have the collection (as best as I can tell from the question) this should be a simple change. .wrap() wraps each element in the set, where as .wrapAll() wraps the entire set at once.