Question

I have the following scenario:

I have 5 possible values on a page:

[value 1]
...
[value 5]

What I want to do is grab each value and brackets…

Example Content:

<p>velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et 
dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, 
quis nostrum exercitationem ullam [value 1] corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi 
ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure 
reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate</p>

… and move to another part of the page, let’s say in the header.

How hard is this?

Answer 1

If you don’t need to know where it came from, you can use $(‘body’).text() to get all the text off the website, and then regexp to find the elements.

var text = $('body').text();
var m = new Regexp('\[([^\]])+\]').exec();
$.each(m, function(index, value){
    //add value to header
}

Btw, this code is not tested, and on large sites this could take long. Try to narrow the scope as much as possible(by passing another element instead of body)