Question

I have more DIVs like this:

<span class="date">Fri November 9, 2012</span>

All these are in a var.
Example:

var = '
...<span class="date">Fri November 9, 2012</span>...
...<span class="date">Fri November 9, 2012</span>...
';

I try to replace each date with a image that contain this date.

I have this line but this didn’t works:

ver = ver.replace(/<span class="date">(.*)<\/span>/g,'<span class="date"><img src="generateLink.php?nr='+encodeURIComponent($1)+'" /></span>');

My question is: I can’t use encodeURIComponent in regex?

Answer 1

Use replace with callback function

ver = ver.replace(/<span class="date">([^<]*)<\/span>/g,
function($0,$1) {
   return '<span class="date"><img src="generateLink.php?nr='+encodeURIComponent($1)+'"   /></span>'
});

And can be more simple

ver = ver.replace(/(<span class="date">)([^<]*)(<\/span>)/g,
function($0,$1,$2,$3) {
    return  $1+'<img src="generateLink.php?nr='+encodeURIComponent($2)+'" />'+$3
});