How to prepend line break before special character [closed]

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I need to add a line break immediately prior to every instance of a parenthesis using JavaScript (specifically jQuery).

I've been unable to locate any documentation that indicates I can search a string, by specifying it's class/ID, for a special character (in this case the parenthesis) and prepend HTML to it.

Can anyone assist me? Thank you!

Answer 1

$("#unique").html( function(i, oldtext){
    return oldtext.replace("(","<br> (");
});

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