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I've been going through and trying to find an answer to this question that fits my need but either I'm too noob to make other use cases work, or their not specific enough for my case.
Basically I want to use javascript/jQuery to replace any and all ampersands (&) on a web page that may occur in a links href with just the word "and". I've tried a couple different versions of this with no luck
var link = $("a").attr('href');
link.replace(/&/g, "and");
Thank you
Your current code replaces the text of the element within the jQuery object, but does not update the element(s) in the DOM.
You can instead achieve what you need by providing a function to attr() which will be executed against all elements in the matched set. Try this:
$("a").attr('href', function(i, value) {
return value.replace(/&/g, "and");
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
link
link
Sometimes when replacing &, I've found that even though I replaced &, I still have amp;. There is a fix to this:
var newUrl = "#Model.UrlToRedirect".replace(/&/gi, '%').replace(/%amp;/gi, '&');
With this solution you replace & twice and it will work. In my particular problem in an MVC app, window.location.href = #Model.UrlToRedirect, the url was already partially encoded and had a query string. I tried encoding/decoding, using Uri as the C# class, escape(), everything before coming up with this solution. The problem with using my above logic is other things could blow up the query string later. One solution is to put a hidden field or input on the form like this:
<input type="hidden" value="#Model.UrlToRedirect" id="url-redirect" />
then in your javascript:
window.location.href = document.getElementById("url-redirect").value;
in this way, javascript won't take the c# string and change it.
So, I have some code that should do four things:
remove the ".mp4" extension from every title
change my video category
put the same description in all of the videos
put the same keywords in all of the videos
Note: All of this would be done on the YouTube upload page. I'm using Greasemonkey in Mozilla Firefox.
I wrote this, but my question is: how do I change the HTML title in the actual HTML page to the new title (which is a Javascript variable)?
This is my code:
function remove_mp4()
{
var title = document.getElementsByName("title").value;
var new_title = title.replace(title.match(".mp4"), "");
}
function add_description()
{
var description = document.getElementsByName("description").value;
var new_description = "Subscribe."
}
function add_keywords()
{
var keywords = document.getElementsByName("keywords").value;
var new_keywords = prompt("Enter keywords.", "");
}
function change_category()
{
var category = document.getElementsByName("category").value;
var new_category = "<option value="27">Education</option>"
}
remove_mp4();
add_description();
add_keywords();
change_category();
Note: If you see any mistakes in the JavaScript code, please let me know.
Note 2: If you wonder why I stored the current HTML values in variables, that's because I think I will have to use them in order to replace HTML values (I may be wrong).
A lot of things have been covered already, but still i would like to remind you that if you are looking for cross browser compatibility innerHTML won't be enough, as you may need innerText too or textContent to tackle some old versions of IE or even using some other way to modify the content of an element.
As a side note innerHTML is considered from a great majority of people as deprecated though some others still use it. (i'm not here to debate about is it good or not to use it but this is just a little remark for you to checkabout)
Regarding remarks, i would suggest minimizing the number of functions you create by creating some more generic versions for editing or adding purposes, eg you could do the following :
/*
* #param $affectedElements the collection of elements to be changed
* #param $attribute here means the attribute to be added to each of those elements
* #param $attributeValue the value of that attribute
*/
function add($affectedElements, $attribute, $attributeValue){
for(int i=0; i<$affectedElements.length; i++){
($affectedElements[i]).setAttribute($attribute, $attributeValue);
}
}
If you use a global function to do the work for you, not only your coce is gonna be easier to maintain but also you'll avoid fetching for elements in the DOM many many times, which will considerably make your script run faster. For example, in your previous code you fetch the DOM for a set of specific elements before you can add a value to them, in other words everytime your function is executed you'll have to go through the whole DOM to retrieve your elements, while if you just fetch your elements once then store in a var and just pass them to a function that's focusing on adding or changing only, you're clearly avoiding some repetitive tasks to be done.
Concerning the last function i think code is still incomplete, but i would suggest you use the built in methods for manipulating HTMLOption stuff, if i remember well, using plain JavaScript you'll find yourself typing this :
var category = document.getElem.... . options[put-index-here];
//JavaScript also lets you create <option> elements with the Option() constructor
Anyway, my point is that you would better use JavaScript's available methods to do the work instead of relying on innerHTML fpr anything you may need, i know innerHTML is the simplest and fastest way to get your work done, but if i can say it's like if you built a whole HTML page using and tags only instead of using various semantic tags that would help make everything clearer.
As a last point for future use, if you're interested by jQuery, this will give you a different way to manipulate your DOM through CSS selectors in a much more advanced way than plain JavaScript can do.
you can check out this link too :
replacement for innerHTML
I assume that your question is only about the title changing, and not about the rest; also, I assume you mean changing all elements in the document that have "title" as name attribute, and not the document title.
In that case, you could indeed use document.getElementsByName("title").
To handle the name="title" elements, you could do:
titleElems=document.getElementsByName("title");
for(i=0;i<titleElems.length;i++){
titleInner=titleElems[i].innerHTML;
titleElems[i].innerHTML=titleInner.replace(titleInner.match(".mp4"), "");
}
For the name="description" element, use this: (assuming there's only one name="description" element on the page, or you want the first one)
document.getElementsByName("description")[0].value="Subscribe.";
I wasn't really sure about the keywords (I haven't got a YouTube page in front of me right now), so this assumes it's a text field/area just like the description:
document.getElementsByName("keywords")[0].value=prompt("Please enter keywords:","");
Again, based on your question which just sets the .value of the category thingy:
document.getElementsByName("description")[0].value="<option value='27'>Education</option>";
At the last one, though, note that I changed the "27" into '27': you can't put double quotes inside a double-quoted string assuming they're handled just like any other character :)
Did this help a little more? :)
Sry, but your question is not quite clear. What exactly is your HTML title that you are referring to?
If it's an element that you wish to modify, use this :
element.setAttribute('title', 'new-title-here');
If you want to modify the window title (shown in the browser tab), you can do the following :
document.title = "the new title";
You've reading elements from .value property, so you should write back it too:
document.getElementsByName("title").value = new_title
If you are refering to changing text content in an element called title try using innerHTML
var title = document.getElementsByName("title").value;
document.getElementsByName("title").innerHTML = title.replace(title.match(".mp4"), "");
source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.innerHTML
The <title> element is an invisible one, it is only displayed indirectly - in the window or tab title. This means that you want to change whatever is displayed in the window/tab title and not the HTML code itself. You can do this by changing the document.title property:
function remove_mp4()
{
document.title = document.title.replace(title.match(".mp4"), "");
}
I use this code to get value from an input box:
var suggest_type = document.getElementById('ac-type').value;
Now I need to apply my js code on several other pages. I heard that it's not nice to repeat an ID on one website. So, I'm thinking to change to use class like this:
var suggest_type = document.getElementByClass('ac-type').value;
This doesn't get the value. How can I use class to get value?
You should stick with using ID's - they only have to be unique within a page.
If you must use classes, you need to use getElementsByClassName():
var elems = document.getElementsByClassName('ac-type');
var value = elems[0].value;
However this function is not well supported on older browsers, which is another good reason to stick with IDs.
Its absolutely fine to repeat ids across a website just not on a single html document.
ID's should be unique within one html page.
It's actually :
var suggest_type = document.getElementsByClassName('ac-type')[0].value;
But I agree with Jon Taylor, ID's can be the same within a website, as long they are not duplicated on the same page.
try using this:
var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('ac-type'); // this is an array containing all matched elements
Use jquery just by using -
$('.ac-type').val();
you will get value.
We're writing a web app that relies on Javascript/jQuery. It involves users filling out individual words in a large block of text, kind of like Mad Libs. We've created a sort of HTML format that we use to write the large block of text, which we then manipulate with jQuery as the user fills it out.
Part of a block of text might look like this:
<span class="fillmeout">This is a test of the <span>NOUN</span> Broadcast System.</span>
Given that markup, I need to separately retrieve and manipulate the text before and after the inner <span>; we're calling those the "prefix" and "suffix".
I know that you can't parse HTML with simple string manipulation, but I tried anyway; I tried using split() on the <span> and </span> tags. It seemed simple enough. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer casts all HTML tags to uppercase, so that technique fails. I could write a special case, but the error has taught me to do this the right way.
I know I could simply use extra HTML tags to manually denote the prefix and suffix, but that seems ugly and redundant; I'd like to keep our markup format as lean and readable and writable as possible.
I've looked through the jQuery docs, and can't find a function that does exactly what I need. There are all sorts of functions to add stuff before and after and around and inside elements, but none that I can find to retrieve what's already there. I could remove the inner <span>, but then I don't know how I can tell what came before the deleted element apart from what came after it.
Is there a "right" way to do what I'm trying to do?
With simple string manipulations you can also use Regex.
That should solve your problem.
var array = $('.fillmeout').html().split(/<\/?span>/i);
Use your jQuery API! $('.fillmeout').children() and then you can manipulate that element as required.
http://api.jquery.com/children/
For completeness, I thought I should point out that the cleanest answer is to put the prefix and suffix text in it's own <span> like this and then you can use jQuery selectors and methods to directly access the desired text:
<span class="fillmeout">
<span class="prefix">This is a test of the </span>
<span>NOUN</span>
<span class="suffix"> Broadcast System.</span>
</span>
Then, the code would be as simple as:
var fillme = $(".fillmeout").eq(0);
var prefix = fillme.find(".prefix").text();
var suffix = fillme.find(".suffix").text();
FYI, I would not call this level of simplicity "ugly and redundant" as you theorized. You're using HTML markup to delineate the text into separate elements that you want to separately access. That's just smart, not redundant.
By way of analogy, imagine you have toys of three separate colors (red, white and blue) and they are initially organized by color and you know that sometime in the future you are going to need to have them separated by color again. You also have three boxes to store them in. You can either put them all in one box now and manually sort them out by color again later or you can just take the already separated colors and put them each into their own box so there's no separation work to do later. Which is easier? Which is smarter?
HTML elements are like the boxes. They are containers for your text. If you want the text separated out in the future, you might as well put each piece of text into it's own named container so it's easy to access just that piece of text in the future.
Several of these answers almost got me what I needed, but in the end I found a function not mentioned here: .contents(). It returns an array of all child nodes, including text nodes, that I can then iterate over (recursively if needed) to find what I need.
I'm not sure if this is the 'right' way either, but you could replace the SPANs with an element you could consistently split the string on:
jQuery('.fillmeout span').replaceWith('|');
http://api.jquery.com/replaceWith/
http://jsfiddle.net/mdarnell/P24se/
You could use
$('.fillmeout span').get(0).previousSibling.textContent
$('.fillmeout span').get(0).nextSibling.textContent
This works in IE9, but sadly not in IE versions smaller than 9.
Based on your example, you could use your target as a delimiter to split the sentence.
var str = $('.fillmeout').html();
str = str.split('<span>NOUN</span>');
This would return an array of ["This is a test of the ", " Broadcast System."]. Here's a jsFiddle example.
You could just use the nextSibling and previousSibling native JavaScript (coupled with jQuery selectors):
$('.fillmeout span').each(
function(){
var prefix = this.previousSibling.nodeValue,
suffix = this.nextSibling.nodeValue;
});
JS Fiddle proof of concept.
References:
each().
node.nextSibling.
node.previousSibling.
If you want to use the DOM instead of parsing the HTML yourself and you can't put the desired text in it's own elements, then you will need to look through the DOM for text nodes and find the text nodes before and after the span tag.
jQuery isn't a whole lot of help when dealing with text nodes instead of element nodes so the work is mostly done in plain javascript like this:
$(".fillmeout").each(function() {
var node = this.firstChild, prefix = "", suffix = "", foundSpan = false;
while (node) {
if (node.nodeType == 3) {
// if text node
if (!foundSpan) {
prefix += node.nodeValue;
} else {
suffix += node.nodeValue;
}
} else if (node.nodeType == 1 && node.tagName == "SPAN") {
// if element and span tag
foundSpan = true;
}
node = node.nextSibling;
}
// here prefix and suffix are the text before and after the first
// <span> tag in the HTML
// You can do with them what you want here
});
Note: This code does not assume that all text before the span is located in one text node and one text node only. It might be, but it also might not be so it collates all the text nodes together that are before and after the span tag. The code would be simpler if you could just reference one text node on each side, but it isn't 100% certain that that is a safe assumption.
This code also handles the case where there is no text before or after the span.
You can see it work here: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/P9YQ6/
For example in javascript code running on the page we have something like:
var data = '<html>\n <body>\n I want this text ...\n </body>\n</html>';
I'd like to use and at least know if its possible to get the text in the body of that html string without throwing the whole html string into the DOM and selecting from there.
First, it's a string:
var arbitrary = '<html><body>\nSomething<p>This</p>...</body></html>';
Now jQuery turns it into an unattached DOM fragment, applying its internal .clean() method to strip away things like the extra <html>, <body>, etc.
var $frag = $( arbitrary );
You can manipulate this with jQuery functions, even if it's still a fragment:
alert( $frag.filter('p').get() ); // says "<p>This</p>"
Or of course just get the text content as in your question:
alert( $frag.text() ); // includes "This" in my contrived example
// along with line breaks and other text, etc
You can also later attach the fragment to the DOM:
$('div#something_real').append( $frag );
Where possible, it's often a good strategy to do complicated manipulation on fragments while they're unattached, and then slip them into the "real" page when you're done.
The correct answer to this question, in this exact phrasing, is NO.
If you write something like var a = $("<div>test</div>"), jQuery will add that div to the DOM, and then construct a jQuery object around it.
If you want to do without bothering the DOM, you will have to parse it yourself. Regular expressions are your friend.
It would be easiest, I think, to put that into the DOM and get it from there, then remove it from the DOM again.
Jquery itself is full of tricks like this. It's adding all sorts off stuff into the DOM all the time, including when you build something using $('<p>some html</p>'). So if you went down that road you'd still effectively be placing stuff into the DOM then removing it again, temporarily, except that it'd be Jquery doing it.
John Resig (jQuery author) created a pure JS HTML parser that you might find useful. An example from that page:
var dom = HTMLtoDOM("<p>Data: <input disabled>");
dom.getElementsByTagName("body").length == 1
dom.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 1
Buuuut... This question contains a constraint that I think you need to be more critical of. Rather than working around a hard-coded HTML string in a JS variable, can you not reconsider why it's that way in the first place? WHAT is that hard-coded string used for?
If it's just sitting there in the script, re-write it as a proper object.
If it's the response from an AJAX call, there is a perfectly good jQuery AJAX API already there. (Added: although jQuery just returns it as a string without any ability to parse it, so I guess you're back to square one there.)
Before throwing it in the DOM that is just a plain string.
You can sure use REGEX.