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jQuery find and replace string

This is my html:

<div class="dt_lft">There is an error</div>

I need to find whether the div has the text error and replace that text with success using class name. How to do this?

Answer 1

$("div.dt_lft:contains('error')").text(function(i,text){
   return text.replace('error', 'success');
});

http://jsfiddle.net/ztCcB/1/

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$("div.dt_lft:contains('error')") returns all divs with class dt_lft containing word error, you can read more about jQuery contains selector. With jQuery .text() you can write function like:

$(object).text(function(index,CurrentContent){
   //somecode here
}

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Elsewhere, if your object contains word error many times, you can do:

text.split('error').join('success');

In case you do not want to use RegEx.