Question

I end up deleting the element containing the character every time I try.

What I’m trying to delete is the comma for each .date:

<div class='date'>Nov 1, 2011</div>
<div class='date'>Dec 22, 2011</div>

Answer 1

var date0 = document.getElementsByClassName("date")[0];
var string = date0.innerHTML;
var newString = string.replace(/,/g,"");
date0.innerHTML = newString;

This should take the content of the first .date element, search for any commas, remove them, and put the updated string back into the element.

Here’s some code that will remove the comma in all .date elements:

var date = document.getElementsByClassName("date");
var len = date.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    var datei = date[i];
    var string = datei.innerHTML;
    var newString = string.replace(/,/g, "");
    datei.innerHTML = newString;
}

Example.