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HTML
<div id="replace">
text<div> text </div><div> text </div><div> text </div>
</div>
JavaScript
$('#replace').html(function(i, html) {
return html.replace(/<(|\/)div>/g, function(match) {
return match == '<div>' ? '<br>' : '';
});
});
console.log($('#replace').html());