Question

My goal is to find a sentence in a html page and replace it / wrapping with
<span class='red'>...</span>

basically the same concept of highlighting results…but instead of words i need to highlight an entire sentence

for some reason my code sometimes works, sometimes not…

here:

$('body').each( function () {
  $(this).html(function(i, html) {
    return html.replace(myString, '<span class="red">'+myString+'<\/span>' );
  }); 
});

also it seems to stop when it finds the first occurence of the first word of the sentence…
any help?

Answer 1

• Use a regexp
• Add “g” to replace all occurences
• Use “$1” to reuse your string

• Be carefull there is no special caracter in your string (that could be iterpreted as a regexp operator)

  var re = new Regexp('('+myString+')', "g");
  html.replace(re, '<span class="red">$1<\/span>')