Wrap text in first cell
<p>I need to wrap a text label in the first column of my table into a span. It seems pretty straight-forward, b ut I seem to be missing something. Here's what I've tried:</p>

<pre><code>$('#myTable tr td:first-child').each(function() {
    var lbl = $(this).val();
    lbl.wrap('&lt;span class="new" /&gt;');
}); 
</code></pre>
