Question

Given the code line

var value = $("#text").val();

and value = 9.61, I need to convert 9.61 to 9:61. How can I use the JavaScript replace function here?

Answer 1

Do it like this:

var value = $("#text").val(); // value = 9.61 use $("#text").text() if you are not on select box...
value = value.replace(".", ":"); // value = 9:61
// can then use it as
$("#anothertext").val(value);

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Updated to reflect to current version of jQuery. And also there are a lot of answers here that would best fit to any same situation as this. You, as a developer, need to know which is which.

Replace all occurrences

To replace multiple characters at a time use some thing like this: name.replace(/&/g, "-"). Here I am replacing all & chars with -. g means “global”

Note – you may need to add square brackets to avoid an error – title.replace(/[+]/g, " ")

credits vissu and Dante Cullari