Using jQuery for unit conversions (m to feet) "on the f

Hi all, I run a yacht sales website. In our database we list boats by "meters", however many people want to see "feet" measurements. To save us having to make a "feet" field and enter the feet for every boat, I thought we could simply include a script in our "boat detail" template page that grabs the meters value (by id I guess...thanks to JQuery) and writes the feet equivalent next to it in the html.

It's one of those things that I am sure is "easy" to do if you know how! It would be a great learning experience for me if someone could help out, and I'm sure it would be useful for many other projects to (converting pounds to dollars for instance (roughly from a "more or less" fixed value)).

Thanks for your assistance, from a first time poster

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