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Asked: 2026-05-13T19:23:51+00:00

So I figured out that the replace function, that finds all single-letter words (prepositions

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So I figured out that the replace function, that finds all single-letter “words” (prepositions and conjunction, etc.) and replace the space after them with a   to prevent leaving these characters at the end of line, should be something like

myString.replace(/\s\w(?=\s)/,"$1 ")

Now how do I apply it to all text on a webpage? I am looking for some universal solution, a simple function which I put into <head> without need to change anything else in the webpage.

Thank you very much.

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    function replaceText(node)
{
  var current = node.nodeValue;
  var replaced = current.replace(searchpattern, replacepattern);
  node.nodeValue = replaced;
}
function traverse(node)
{
  var children = node.childNodes;
  var childLen = children.length;
  for(var i = 0; i < childLen; i++)
  {
    var child = children.item(i);
    if(child.nodeType == 3)//or if(child instanceof Text)
      replaceText(child);
    else
      traverse(child);
  }
}
function replaceAll()
{
  traverse(document.body);
}

    Call replaceAll() from body’s onload.

    <body onload="replaceAll()">
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