Find and replace all matching strings within textarea

Gavin  picture Gavin · Jan 10, 2012 · Viewed 46.3k times · Source

I have this

var textarea=$('#content'); 
textarea.html(textarea.html().replace("PID","111111")); 

This works partially, but it only finds the first "PID" within the textarea and replaces it to "1111111". There are about 7 others I need to change as well. What I need is a way to find ALL "PID" and replace it with "111111".

Thanks in advance.

Answer

ShankarSangoli picture ShankarSangoli · Jan 10, 2012

Use regex to replace all the occurrences in a string. Try this

textarea.html(textarea.html().replace(/PID/g,"111111"));