Question

I’m trying to create a sort of ‘template’ in plain old html, which can then have elements inserted by another javascript function.

So, I’ve got

var string = "<div id='<@nameInsert>' style='padding: 2px;'>here's some text and stuff</div>";

And in a function I’m trying to replace <@nameInsert> with the name I’m using…

string.replace("/<@nameInsert>", "525");

But, it don’t work. Some sort of escaping thing, wrong idea this, or what?

Answer 1

Don’t use quotes if you want to use regular expressions

string.replace(/<@nameInsert>/, "525");

But in your case you don’t really need regular expressions. Just use a string:

string.replace("<@nameInsert>", "525");