I have somewhere on website a specific text, let's say "lollypops", and I want to replace all the occurrences of this string with "marshmellows". The problem is that I don't know where exactly the text is. I know I could do something like:
$(body).html($(body).html().replace('lollypops', 'marshmellows'));
This would probably work, but I need to rewrite as little HTML as I can, so I'm thinking something like:
class
, but not in src
In example, I would have structure like this
<body>
<div>
<div>
<p>
<h1>
<a>lollypops</a>
</h1>
</p>
<span>lollypops</span>
</div>
</div>
<p>
<span class="lollypops">Hello, World!</span>
<img src="/lollypops.jpg" alt="Cool image" />
</p>
<body>
In this example, every occurrence of "lollypops" would be replaced, only <img src="...
would remain the same and the only elements that would actually be manipulated would be <a>
and both <span>
s.
Does anybody know how to do this?
You could do something like this:
$("span, p").each(function() {
var text = $(this).text();
text = text.replace("lollypops", "marshmellows");
$(this).text(text);
});
It will be better to mark all tags with text that needs to be examined with a suitable class name.
Also, this may have performance issues. jQuery or javascript in general aren't really suitable for this kind of operations. You are better off doing it server side.