Question

I’m trying to do a parse of html content using jQuery/Javascript. I want to look for words between square brackets and change the whole word for a link.

Example:

<div>
   This is text inside a div. It has a reference to an [[Article]]
</div>

I’m trying to use Regular Expressions to change what’s inside the double brackets into something like this:

<div>
   This is text inside a div. It has a reference to an <a href='/dictionary#Article'>Article</a>
</div>

I can find all instances of words between square brackets with this regex:

$('article').html().match(/[^[\]]+(?=])/g)

But don’t know how to replace the text.

Answer 1

$("div").html(function(i, html) {
    return html.replace(/\[\[(.+?)\]\]/g, "<a href='/dictionary#$1'>$1</a>");
});

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/y4N6e/