Question

Hi i have code like this:

<span class="someclass" style="display:none"></span> Some text

how to match only the “Some” word? with regExp for Javascript
10x

Answer 1

You’ll need to put “Some text” into a ‘div’ so you can reference it

var str=document.getElementById("myText").innerText; 
var patt1=/(Some)/g;
document.write(patt1.test(str));

That will return true

Here is a working version: http://jsfiddle.net/4df3w/1/

Change the text inside to see the difference.

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EDIT: I see you didn’t literally mean the word ‘Some‘. Put the text in a div, and in the function do this:

var str = document.getElementById("myText").innerText; 
var match = str.split(" ")[0];
document.write(match);

http://jsfiddle.net/4df3w/3/