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Asked: 2026-05-15T05:05:03+00:00

I’m trying to replace a small part of text in a large HTML document

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I’m trying to replace a small part of text in a large HTML document with my own element which I create on the fly.

The text may be a huge bulk of text, html, images, what-ever, and what I want is to find the first (or all) the position of a certain string, and replace it with an element that I create using $('< span>').

Using simple text.replace('the string', $('< span>')); doesn’t do the trick (I’m left with [object Object] and not the actual < span> that I want.

The reason I don’t just inject direct HTML is because I want to retain all the binds that are related to the object I’m creating. and doing a replace with a custom ID, and then attaching binds to the ID after the HTML has been altered, seems a bit dirty.

Thanks for the help! 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You more than likely want the highlight plugin and just modify to wrap a link if you wish.

    http://www.unwrongest.com/projects/highlight/

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