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Adding space between words while rendering the contents from a .txt file using JS/Jquery

I am trying to display the contents of my .txt file in a div. However, I want to insert additional space between certain words. I know editing the file system directly using JS is not a good idea. However, Is there any way of adding the spaces between the word at the time when it is rendered in the webpage.
My HTML :
<div id= "show-content"></div>
JQuery code :
function readFile() {
$.get('data.txt', function(txt) {
console.log(txt)
$("#show-content").load("data.txt");
}, 'text');
}
My Text file (data.txt) looks something like :
Blaine Nemec
Alphonse Smither
Lon Garrick
Rob Hennings
Erin Tatham
Stefan Stacks
Allen Dang
Rolf Aultman
Jeff Christenson
Mohamed Croswell
Ambrose Mina
Rhett Jahnke
The display list is coming correctly. However, I want to add some additional space after each name. If its not possible to edit the .txt file, is it possible to achieve this in CSS or JS/JQuery. I have searched several stack overflow questions related to editing files, but none was in JavaScript and couldn't help me out.
EDIT: I am trying to add 3 or 4 additional space depending on the font family, after each name in the .txt file.

You can split the .txt words with the .split() method and than stylize them.
Something like this:
function readFile() {
$.get('data.txt', function(txt) {
console.log(txt)
myWords = txt.split("\n");
for (word of myWords) {
$("#show-content").append("<span class="beautyWord">" + word + "</span>")
}
}, 'text');
}
Then stylize the beautyWord class in your css with something like margin-left: 5px

Okay first of all, you are making the ajax request two time. One in .get and one in .load. Use .get only, you can alter the test of txt variable like:
function readFile() {
$.get('data.txt', function(txt) {
cont newText = txt.split("\n")
.map(el => el + " ")
.join("\n");
$("#show-content").html(newText);
});
}
Split string using \n
Add a certain amount of spaces
Join back using \n
Set the variable as html.

I don't know what you are trying to achieve by additional spaces, but here's basic JS code for it.
//change number of spaces according to your need
//you can also use &nbsp for it
var EXTRA_SPACE = ' ';
function readFile() {
$.get('data.txt', function(txt) {
console.log(txt)
var names = txt.split('\n').map(item => getElement(item + EXTRA_SPACE));
$("#show-content").html(name);
}, 'text');
}
//change how each individual name element should look like
function getElement(name) {
return '<div>' + name + '</div>';
}
P.S. generally we use CSS padding and margin around the element to achieve that

Replace all occurences of custom tag with URL in it [JS]

I'm making an online text editor for a website I'm building, and I use custom tags for the markup.
To make it easier to read, the markup is highlighted by blue, which I do buy using the following function:
var imgOccurences = (informationText.match(/\[img/gi)).length;
for(var i = 0; i < imgOccurences; i++){
var imgLocation = informationText.indexOf('[img');
var endImgLocation = informationText.indexOf(']', imgLocation+1);
if(imgLocation != -1 && endImgLocation != -1){
var informationTextTemp1 = informationText.slice(0, imgLocation);
var informationTextTemp2 = informationText.slice(endImgLocation+1, -1);
var informationTextTemp3 = informationText.slice(imgLocation, endImgLocation+1);
informationTextTemp3 = "<span class='highlightWord'>"+informationTextTemp3+"</span>";
informationText = informationTextTemp1 + informationTextTemp3 + informationTextTemp2;
}
}
However the problem I face is that, when normalizing the text to HTML, I cannot use regex expressions, which I was previously using with the other tags, on the [img] tag, due to the fact that I wanted to highlight the image tag, and all of its contents, which includes a URL.
So I decided to count up all the occurrences of just the '[img' part of the [img] tag and then look for the next occurrence of ']', then slice it out of the normal text, then highlight it using a span, and then add it back to the normal text, while I put it in a for loop.
However only the first occurrence of the [img] tag is highlighted, and I am unsure as to how I should deal with this. Any help would be appreciated.
Basically I need to get everything which looks like: [img src='www.example.com/image.png']and make it look like:<span class='highlightWord'>[img src='example.com/image.png']</span> and then put it into the .innerHTML of the div called textHighlights.
Expected result:
The result I got:

You can do it much simpler since the .replace method accepts a regular expression as a parameter for the matching string.
informationText = informationText.replace(/(\[img.+?\])/gi, '<span class="highlightWord">$1</span>');
The above will replace all matches directly (by wrapping them in the span you want)

Changing file path when inserting HTML via JavaScript

I have a button that runs a batch file, which the code is:
<button onclick="window.open('file:///C:/Users/gthornbu/Desktop/TEST/test.bat')">Continue</button>
I can put that directly in the HTML file and it works just fine, however I am inserting this specific piece of code into the file via output.innerHTML and it's not working. I assume the "/" have to be changed, but I have also tried:
<button onclick='window.open('file:///C:\\Users\\gthornbu\\Desktop\\TEST\\test.bat')'>Continue</button>...which also does not work. Any ideas what I'm missing here?
JavaScript I am using:
function novpn() {
var output = document.getElementById("main");
var sentence = "<h3>You are not connected to the VPN. In order to proceed, you must sign in and launch 'Network Connect'.</h3></br><button onclick='window.open('file:///C:\\Users\\gthornbu\\Desktop\\TEST\\test.bat')'>Continue</button>";
output.innerHTML = sentence;
}

You have ' nested within '.
The easy way out is to use ", but escaped, as the inner quote. Then go back to the original URL (with forward slashes):
var sentence = "<h3>You are not connected to the VPN. In order to proceed, you must sign in and launch 'Network Connect'.</h3></br>" +
"<button onclick='window.open(\"file:///C:/Users/gthornbu/Desktop/TEST/test.bat\")'>Continue</button>";

You can declare strings with ", ' characters. If you have to call a function with parameter in html attribute, declaration may become a problem.
You can resolve this with escape character. \
It will escape behaving the character caused. You must add before it.
var str = "string";
var str2 = \""string\"";
str === str2 // true
In your case, you can do it like this.
output.innerHTML = '<button onclick="window.open(\'file:///C:/Users/gthornbu/Desktop/TEST/test.bat\')">Continue</button>'
Working JS Fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/ebilgin/wLe04pwg/

Nesting html markup and javascript code in strings can become an headache to get the single and double quotes right and escaped where needed. Although it allows for some rather rapid application development if you need to maintain this later you might give this solution try.
Instead of figuring out which quote needed to go where I recreated your target html in vanilla javascript commands to create the same result by using different functions and wiring it all together.
I used the document.createElement function to create the html elements needed and the appendChild function to add them to the main element. The button get the function for opening the window attached to the onclick event.
function novpn() {
var output = document.getElementById("main");
// create the h3 elelement and its content
var h3 = document.createElement('h3');
h3.innerHTML = "You are not connected to the VPN. In order to proceed, you must sign in and launch 'Network Connect'.";
// the br
var br = document.createElement('br');
// create the button
var button = document.createElement('button');
button.innerHTML = "Continue";
// the onclick handler can now become
// a normal javascript function
button.onclick = function() {
window.open('file:///C:/Users/gthornbu/Desktop/TEST/test.bat');
};
// add all created elements to main
output.appendChild(h3);
output.appendChild(br);
output.appendChild(button);
}
// start
novpn();
<div id='main'>
<div>title</div>
</div>

Jquery Own Html Text Editor

I'm trying make my own html text editor. Like you see picture. I wrote bold, italic, there is no problem.
But when i wrote code (like html code), like you see only write "Test", But I wrote in textarea <p>Test</p>
And I'm using SyntaxHighlighter plugin for display my codes.
And you see my code below
function Textarea(input, preview) {
var text = input.val().replace(/\[b\]/g, "<b>").replace(/\[\/b\]/g, "</b>")
.replace(/\[i\]/g, "<i>").replace(/\[\/i\]/g, "</i>")
.replace(/\[u\]/g, "<u>").replace(/\[\/u\]/g, "</u>")
.replace(/\[s\]/g, "<s>").replace(/\[\/s\]/g, "</s>")
.replace(/\[img\]/g, "<br/><p></p><img src='").replace(/\[\/img\]/g, "' /><br/><p></p>")
.replace(/\[link/g, "<a").replace(/URL="/g, "href='").replace(/"\]/g, "'>").replace(/\[\/link\]/g, "</a>")
.replace(/\[code/g, "<pre").replace(/type="/g, "class='brush:").replace(/"\]/g, "'>").replace(/\[\/code\]/g, "</pre>");
preview.html(text);
}
I know it cause for preview.html(text), I need also write like preview.text(text) code.
But I dont know, how can i do this?
Thanks.

a quick way is to create a element inject the html code as text, then get it back out as html, then the tags, and other characters, should then be in entity form, eg < as < etc
$('<div></div>').text(input.val()).html().replace...
But there are some issues with it, eg whitespaces maybe removed
Because of that this answer shows creating a function that you can use to encode characters, which just encodes the <,>,",',& characters. You could add other characters to the replace to extend the function.

So what you need to do is html encode the raw text given by the user, then replace the bracket entities with html, and finally set the html of the output div. Here's a simple example of that:
http://jsfiddle.net/2K97x/
String.prototype.htmlEncode = function () {
return $('<div/>').text(this).html();
};
function replaceEntities(value) {
return value.replace(/\[b\]/g, "<b>").replace(/\[\/b\]/g, "</b>")
.replace(/\[i\]/g, "<i>").replace(/\[\/i\]/g, "</i>")
.replace(/\[u\]/g, "<u>").replace(/\[\/u\]/g, "</u>")
.replace(/\[s\]/g, "<s>").replace(/\[\/s\]/g, "</s>")
.replace(/\[img\]/g, "<br/><p></p><img src='").replace(/\[\/img\]/g, "' /><br/><p></p>")
.replace(/\[link/g, "<a").replace(/URL="/g, "href='").replace(/"\]/g, "'>").replace(/\[\/link\]/g, "</a>")
.replace(/\[code/g, "<pre").replace(/type="/g, "class='brush:").replace(/"\]/g, "'>").replace(/\[\/code\]/g, "</pre>");
}
var rawValue = $('input').val();
var htmlEncoded = rawValue.htmlEncode();
var newHtml = replaceEntities(htmlEncoded);
$('div').html(newHtml);

Is there a way to convert HTML into normal text without actually write it to a selector with Jquery?

I understand so far that in Jquery, with html() function, we can convert HTML into text, for example,
$("#myDiv").html(result);
converts "result" (which is the html code) into normal text and display it in myDiv.
Now, my question is, is there a way I can simply convert the html and put it into a variable?
for example:
var temp;
temp = html(result);
something like this, of course this does not work, but how can I put the converted into a variable without write it to the screen? Since I'm checking the converted in a loop, thought it's quite and waste of resource if keep writing it to the screen for every single loop.
Edit:
Sorry for the confusion, for example, if result is " <p>abc</p> " then $(#mydiv).html(result) makes mydiv display "abc", which "converts" html into normal text by removing the <p> tags. So how can I put "abc" into a variable without doing something like var temp=$(#mydiv).text()?

Here is no-jQuery solution:
function htmlToText(html) {
var temp = document.createElement('div');
temp.innerHTML = html;
return temp.textContent; // Or return temp.innerText if you need to return only visible text. It's slower.
}
Works great in IE ≥9.

No, the html method doesn't turn HTML code into text, it turns HTML code into DOM elements. The browser will parse the HTML code and create elements from it.
You don't have to put the HTML code into the page to have it parsed into elements, you can do that in an independent element:
var d = $('<div>').html(result);
Now you have a jQuery object that contains a div element that has the elements from the parsed HTML code as children. Or:
var d = $(result);
Now you have a jQuery object that contains the elements from the parsed HTML code.

You could simply strip all HTML tags:
var text = html.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g, "");

Why not use .text()
$("#myDiv").html($(result).text());

you can try:
var tmp = $("<div>").attr("style","display:none");
var html_text = tmp.html(result).text();
tmp.remove();
But the way with modifying string with regular expression is simpler, because it doesn't use DOM traversal.
You may replace html to text string with regexp like in answer of user Crozin.
P.S.
Also you may like the way when <br> is replacing with newline-symbols:
var text = html.replace(/<\s*br[^>]?>/,'\n')
.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g, "");

var temp = $(your_selector).html();
the variable temp is a string containing the HTML

$("#myDiv").html(result); is not formatting text into html code. You can use .html() to do a couple of things.
if you say $("#myDiv").html(); where you are not passing in parameters to the `html()' function then you are "GETTING" the html that is currently in that div element.
so you could say,
var whatsInThisDiv = $("#myDiv").html();
console.log(whatsInThisDiv); //will print whatever is nested inside of <div id="myDiv"></div>
if you pass in a parameter with your .html() call you will be setting the html to what is stored inside the variable or string you pass. For instance
var htmlToReplaceCurrent = '<div id="childOfmyDiv">Hi! Im a child.</div>';
$("#myDiv").html(htmlToReplaceCurrent);
That will leave your dom looking like this...
<div id="myDiv">
<div id="childOfmyDiv">Hi! Im a child.</div>
</div>

Easiest, safe solution - use Dom Parser
For more advanced usage - I suggest you try Dompurify
It's cross-browser (and supports Node js). only 19kb gziped
Here is a fiddle I've created that converts HTML to text
const dirty = "Hello <script>in script<\/script> <b>world</b><p> Many other <br/>tags are stripped</p>";
const config = { ALLOWED_TAGS: [''], KEEP_CONTENT: true, USE_PROFILES: { html: true } };
// Clean HTML string and write into the div
const clean = DOMPurify.sanitize(dirty, config);
document.getElementById('sanitized').innerText = clean;
Input: Hello <script>in script<\/script> <b>world</b><p> Many other <br/>tags are stripped</p>
Output: Hello world Many other tags are stripped

Using the dom has several disadvantages. The one not mentioned in the other answers: Media will be loaded, causing network traffic.
I recommend using a regular expression to remove the tags after replacing certain tags like br, p, ol, ul, and headers into \n newlines.