Question

i’m trying to loop through divs which has specific string to replace it with another one
inside html i have divs with class “meta” some of them contain word like facebook twitter and they are links and i want to replace only the word facebook with a space to delete it and keep the link of twitter as it is so i’m using this code

$(document).ready(function(e) {
  $(".meta").each(function() {
    var newstring = $(this).text();
    if(newstring.indexOf('facebook') >= 0){
      news = newstring.replace('facebook','');
    }
    $(this).html(news);
  });
});

but the the twitter appears as just text not a link and when using

var newstring = $(this).html();

nothing happens it doesn’t replace the string any help please

Thakns in advance

Answer 1

Use a combination of :contains and .remove().

​$("a:contains('facebook')").remove();​