Question

$('body, html').replace(".", " ");

I tried it, but this one doesn’t work. I want to replace dots to spaces in the whole page.

Answer 1

Does jQuery have a .replace() method? You seem to be trying to use the String.replace() on a jQuery object.

You could try the following instead:

var $body = $("body");
$body.html( $body.html().replace(/\./g, " ") );

Or if you wanted to do it for a more select select of elements, say only those with a certain class:

$(".aCertainClass").html( function(i, oldVal) {
   return oldVal.replace(/\./g, " ");
});

Note that .replace() is using a regex with the g flag set so it does a global replace rather than just replacing the first match.

Note also that if you replace the body’s html it effectively removes and recreates all your elements so it will kill any event handlers already bound – so do it before attaching your handlers.