Question

I have a Greasemonkey script that prints a div — works! However, I’d like to be able to add bold tags to all dates in this div.

Dates are formatted MM/DD/YYYY

So something like:

var regex = '\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}';

Then how would I perform the search replace? If the div was called loanTable:

Non-working concept:

$("#loanTable").html().replace( regex, "<b>" regex "</b>" )

Something like the above should work but I’m not sure of the exact syntax for this.

Answer 1

Use a regex capture group:

var loanTable   = $("#loanTable")
var loanHTML    = loanTable.html ().replace (/(\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})/g, "<b>$1</b>");
loanTable.html (loanHTML);