Question

Am now facing an other challenge. Some parts of my html code has the following lines:

<div class="action-body flooded"><p>(In <span class="error">&#91;82681&#93;</span>)         refs <a href="/browse/AGLBD-16096" title="GlobalTestSuite tracking">AGLBD-16096</a><br/></div>

I have to get the number with-in the [] and then replace it with a hyperlink. I have tried using document.getElementsByClassName(‘error’) but its not working. how can I make it work? and i would also need to iterate in a loop to replace all such numbers if there are more than one in []. e.g: [123] [234] [345]…

This is all what I have written till now with pimvdb’s help:

<script type="text/javascript">
var bodyText = document.getElementById('body').innerHTML;
var pattern = /\[.*?\]/g;
var replaceText = "<a href=\"www.mysite.com\">Pradeep</a>";
document.getElementById('body').innerHTML = bodyText.replace(pattern, replaceText);
</script>

Answer 1

This JSFiddle does what you need: http://jsfiddle.net/TNyms/