Question

I have validation summary that sometimes has multiple br tags at the end like below:

<div id="ValidationSummary1" class="alert alert-error">
    Last 4-digits of Social Security number does not match 
    the Member record on file for the Member ID number you 
    have entered.<br />
    Date of Birth does not match the Member record on file for the Member ID 
    number you have entered.<br /><br />
</div>

I’m trying to find anytime there are two br tags back to back and replace it with one like below:

$('#ValidationSummary1').replace('<br /><br />', '<br />');

I understand there isn’t a replace() function. What would be the alternative to something simple like this?

Answer 1

Use .html() to get and set the content passing it through the standard JS replace().

var div = $('#ValidationSummary1');
div.html(div.html().replace('<br /><br />', '<br />'));