Question

Currently I have a bunch of HTML stored in a variable that I am outputting to the page that looks a little like this:

<p class="firstpara">some stuff</p>
<p class="subhead">a heading</p>
<p class="subsubhead">a subheading</p>
<p>wording and such</p>
<p class="subsubhead">another subheading</p>

you get the idea.

and is output like:

<cfoutput>
#request.oEntry.getHTMLStuff()#
</cfoutput>

Anyway, I need to find all classes of “subsubhead” and add in a id=”x” where x corresponds to a database id i have for that subheading.

I think this would be best done in Coldfusion since the database id is already held in a cfquery and i Can’t mix and match jQuery and ColdFusion.

not currently sure the best way to do this.

Answer 1

This is the code I have come up with.

<cfscript>
local.string    = request.oEntry.getEditorial();
local.x         = 0; 
do{
    local.x = REFind("Subsubhead", local.string,local.x);
    if(local.x neq 0){
        local.x = local.x+10;
        local.string = insert(" id='x'",local.string,local.x);
    }

} while(local.x neq 0);

</cfscript>

This works for me, but there might be a better way