Select from "value" to "value"

Question

I have this

<div class="item">1</div>
<div class="item">2</div>
<div class="item">3</div>
<div class="item">4</div>
<div class="item">5</div>
<div class="item">6</div>
<div class="item">7</div>
<div class="item">8</div>

and I want select from item 1 to item 5 and wrap them into an UL, and select 6 to 8 and wrapp them in another one.

<ul>
      <div class="item">1</div>
      <div class="item">2</div>
      <div class="item">3</div>
      <div class="item">4</div>
      <div class="item">5</div>
</ul>


<ul>
      <div class="item">6</div>
      <div class="item">7</div>
      <div class="item">8</div>
</ul>

How can I do that?. Thank you very much

Answer 1

<div> is not a valid child element for <ul>. You should nest <li> elements. As for the selectors, you can use :gt() and :lt():

$('div.item:lt(5)').wrapAll("<div>");
$('div.item:gt(4)').wrapAll("<div>");