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Checking a div for duplicates before appending to the list using jQuery

This should be trivial but I'm having issues...
Basically what I am trying to do is append a new "div" to "selected-courses" when a user clicks on a "course". This should happen if and only if the current course is not already in the "selected-courses" box.
The problem I'm running into is that nothing is appended to the "selected-courses" section when this is executed. I have used alert statements to make sure the code is in fact being run. Is there something wrong with my understanding of the way .on and .each work ? can I use them this way.
Here is a fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/jq9dth4j/
$(document).on("click", "div.course", function() {
var title = $( this ).find("span").text();
var match_found = 0;
//if length 0 nothing in list, no need to check for a match
if ($(".selected-course").length > 0) {
match_found = match(title);
}
if (matched == 0) {
var out = '<div class="selected-course">' + '' + title + ''+'</div>';
$("#selected-box").append(out);
}
});
//checks to see if clicked course is already in list before adding.
function match(str) {
$(".selected-course").each(function() {
var retval = 0;
if(str == this.text()) {
//course already in selected-course section
retval = 1;
return false;
}
});
return retval;
}

There was a couple of little issues in your fiddle.
See fixed fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/jq9dth4j/1/
function match(str) {
var retval = 0;
$(".selected-course").each(function() {
if(str == $(this).text()) {
retval = 1;
return false;
}
});
return retval;
}
You hadn't wrapped your this in a jquery object. So it threw an exception saying this had no method text().
Second your retval was declared inside the each so it wasn't available to return outside the each, wrong scope.
Lastly the if in the block:
if (matched== 0) {
var out = '';
out += '<div class="selected-course">' + '' + title + ''+'</div>';
$("#selected-box").append(out);
}
was looking at the wrong variable it was looking at matched which didn't exist causing an exception.

Relying on checking what text elements contain is not the best approach to solve this kind of question. It is prone to errors (as you have found out), it can be slow, it gives you long code and it is sensitive to small changes in the HTML. I would recommend using custom data-* attributes instead.
So you would get HTML like this:
<div class="course" data-course="Kite Flying 101">
<a href="#">
<span>Kite Flying 101</span>
</a>
</div>
Then the JS would be simple like this:
$(document).on('click', 'div.course', function() {
// Get the name of the course that was clicked from the attribute.
var title = $(this).attr('data-course');
// Create a selector that selects everything with class selected-course and the right data-course attribute.
var selector = '.selected-course[data-course="' + title + '"]';
if($(selector).length == 0) {
// If the selector didn't return anything, append the div.
// Do note that we need to add the data-course attribute here.
var out = '<div class="selected-course" data-course="' + title + '">' + title + '</div>';
$('#selected-box').append(out);
}
});
Beware of case sensitivity in course names, though!
Here is a working fiddle.

Try this code, read comment for where the changes are :
$(document).on("click", "div.course", function () {
var title = $(this).find("span").text().trim(); // use trim to remove first and end whitespace
var match_found = 0;
if ($(".selected-course").length > 0) {
match_found = match(title);
}
if (match_found == 0) { // should change into match_found
var out = '';
out += '<div class="selected-course">' + '' + title + '' + '</div>';
$("#selected-box").append(out);
}
});
function match(str) {
var retval = 0; // this variable should place in here
$(".selected-course").each(function () {
if (str == $(this).find('a').text().trim()) { // find a tag to catch values, and use $(this) instead of this
retval = 1;
return false;
}
});
return retval; // now can return variable, before will return undefined
}
Updated DEMO

Your Issues are :
1.this.text() is not valid. you have to use $(this).text().
2.you defined var retval = 0; inside each statement and trying to return it outside each statement. so move this line out of the each statement.
3.matched is not defined . it should be match_found in line if (matched == 0) {.
4. use trim() to get and set text, because text may contain leading and trailing spaces.
Your updated JS is
$(document).on("click", "div.course", function () {
var title = $(this).find("span").text();
var match_found = 0;
if ($(".selected-course").length > 0) {
match_found = match(title);
}
if (match_found == 0) {
var out = '<div class="selected-course">' + '' + title + '' + '</div>';
$("#selected-box").append(out);
}
});
function match(str) {
var retval = 0;
$(".selected-course").each(function () {
if (str.trim() == $(this).text().trim()) {
retval = 1;
return false;
}
});
return retval;
}
Updated you Fiddle

Make lines of text have equal length

In centered h1 elements, if the text falls on multiple lines, line breaks make the text look like this:
This is a header that takes up two
lines
This is a header that takes up three
lines because it is really, really
long
Is there a way to manipulate these elements so that the length of the lines of text is roughly equal? Like this:
This is a header that
takes up two lines
This is a header that takes
up three lines because it
is really, really long
The jQuery plugin Widow Fix prevents single-word lines, but I'm looking for something that evens out all the lines in a multi-line element. Are there any jQuery plugins for this, or can you recommend a strategy?

I would solve it using only strict JavaScript, going this way:
1. put a class named 'truncate' to h1 tags you want to break
2. configure the javascript code on your needs knowing that
MAXCOUNT: (integer) max chars counted per line
COUNT_SPACES: (boolean) white spaces must be counted?
COUNT_PUNCTUATION: (boolean) punctuation must be counted?
EXACT: (boolean) the last word must be cut?
BLOCKS_CLASS: (string) the className of the h1 to consider
I wrote the code very quickly so it must be better tested for bugs,
but it can be a starting point I think.
I'm not using jQuery in this code to keep the code light and to avoid dependencies.
I think I'm using all cross-browser commands (cannot test it I've got only linux now). However any correction for cross-browser compatibility task (included the use of jQUery if requested) might be easy.
Here is the code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {background-color: yellow;}
#hiddenDiv {background-color: yellow; display: table-cell; visibility:hidden;}
</style>
<script>
var MAXCOUNT = 20;
var COUNT_SPACES = false;
var EXACT = false;
var COUNT_PUNCTUATION = true;
var BLOCKS_CLASS = 'truncate';
window.onload = function ()
{
var hidden = document.getElementById('hiddenDiv');
if (hidden == null)
{
hidden = document.createElement('div');
hidden.id = 'hiddenDiv';
document.body.appendChild(hidden);
}
var blocks = document.getElementsByClassName(BLOCKS_CLASS);
for (var i=0; i<blocks.length; i++)
{
var block = blocks[i];
var text = block.innerHTML;
var truncate = '';
var html_tag = false;
var special_char = false;
maxcount = MAXCOUNT;
for (var x=0; x<maxcount; x++)
{
var previous_char = (x>0) ? text.charAt(x-1) : '';
var current_char = text.charAt(x);
// Closing HTML tags
if (current_char == '>' && html_tag)
{
html_tag = false;
maxcount++;
continue;
}
// Closing special chars
if (current_char == ';' && special_char)
{
special_char = false;
maxcount++;
continue;
}
// Jumping HTML tags
if (html_tag)
{
maxcount++;
continue;
}
// Jumping special chars
if (special_char)
{
maxcount++;
continue;
}
// Checking for HTML tags
if (current_char == '<')
{
var next = text.substring(x,text.indexOf('>')+1);
var regex = /(^<\w+[^>]*>$)/gi;
var matches = regex.exec(next);
if (matches[0])
{
html_tag = true;
maxcount++;
continue;
}
}
// Checking for special chars
if (current_char == '&')
{
var next = text.substring(x,text.indexOf(';')+1);
var regex = /(^&#{0,1}[0-9a-z]+;$)/gi;
var matches = regex.exec(next);
if (matches[0])
{
special_char = true;
maxcount++;
continue;
}
}
// Shrink multiple white spaces into a single white space
if (current_char == ' ' && previous_char == ' ')
{
maxcount++;
continue;
}
// Jump new lines
if (current_char.match(/\n/))
{
maxcount++;
continue;
}
if (current_char == ' ')
{
// End of the last word
if (x == maxcount-1 && !EXACT) { break; }
// Must I count white spaces?
if ( !COUNT_SPACES ) { maxcount++; }
}
// Must I count punctuation?
if (current_char.match(/\W/) && current_char != ' ' && !COUNT_PUNCTUATION)
{
maxcount++;
}
// Adding this char
truncate += current_char;
// Must I cut exactly?
if (!EXACT && x == maxcount-1) { maxcount++; }
}
hidden.innerHTML = '<h1><nobr>'+truncate+'</nobr></h1>';
block.style.width = hidden.offsetWidth+"px";
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1 class="truncate">
This is a header that
takes up two lines
</h1>
<br>
<h1 class="truncate">
This is a header that takes
up three lines because it
is really, really long
</h1>
<br>
<h1>
This is a header pretty short
or pretty long ... still undecided
which in any case is not truncated!
</h1>
</center>
</body>
</html>
And here is a demo of that: http://jsfiddle.net/6rtdF/

Late to this party, but here's my approach. I get the initial element height (any elements with the class balance_lines, in the code below), then incrementally shrink the width of the element. Once the height of the element changes, I've gone too far. The step before that should have lovely roughly-equal line lengths.
$('.balance_lines').each(function(){
var currentHeight = $(this).height();
var thisHeight = currentHeight;
var currentWidth = $(this).width();
var newWidth = currentWidth;
// Try shrinking width until height changes
while (thisHeight == currentHeight) {
var testWidth = newWidth - 10;
$(this).width(testWidth);
thisHeight = $(this).height();
if (thisHeight == currentHeight) {
newWidth = testWidth;
} else {
break;
}
}
$(this).width(newWidth);
});
You can see this code in action on the homepage at apollopad.com.

The CSS Text 4 draft proposes text-wrap: balance, but I don't think any browser implements it yet.
In the meantime, you can use Adobe's jQuery plugin (demo): https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/balance-text

Implementing a javascript function to search in a div, getting textrange for the search

How do I get the textrange to do a search for a div (or a form)? Are there scripts already available, or jquery functions that search the text of a div?
I append a form to a div with this code:
$('#'+card_id).append('<form id="frm_search" name="frm_search" class="editableToolbar frm_search_links"> <input type="text" placeholder="Type a string..." name="linkcard_search_string" class="txt_form"> </form>');
I'd like to have a search function that will only look for a string in that div. I specify the text range like this.
txt = window.document.body.getelementbyid(card_id).createTextRange();
The search function is one that I found on the net and that I am trying to update to search the div instead of the entire page. There will be several divs on the page and I want the search to be specific to each. I call that function from search_links(card_id);.
function search_links (card_id, form) {
var search_str = document.frm_search.linkcard_search_string.value;
/* alert('search_links '+search_str); */
return search_linkcard(search_str, card_id);
}
var IE4 = (document.all);
var n = 0;
function search_linkcard(str, card_id) {
alert (card_id + ' ' + str);
var txt, i, found;
if (str == "")
return false;
// Find next occurance of the given string on the page, wrap around to the
// start of the page if necessary.
if (IE4) {
txt = window.document.body.getelementbyid(card_id).createTextRange();
// Find the nth match from the top of the page.
for (i = 0; i <= n && (found = txt.findText(str)) != false; i++) {
txt.moveStart("character", 1);
txt.moveEnd("textedit");
}
// If found, mark it and scroll it into view.
if (found) {
txt.moveStart("character", -1);
txt.findText(str);
txt.select();
txt.scrollIntoView();
n++;
}
// Otherwise, start over at the top of the page and find first match.
else {
if (n > 0) {
n = 0;
search_linkcard(str, card_id);
}
// Not found anywhere, give message.
else
alert("Not found.");
}
}
return false;
}
My specific questions are those at the beginning of the question: How do I specify a text range for the div? Is the syntax I have right? Are there scripts that already do what I want, i.e. search the contents of a specific div?

Did the search with :contains. Did not do one match at a time. Highlighted all matches.
// Open search
function open_search(card_id) {
$('#'+card_id).append('<form id="frm_search" name="frm_search" class="editableToolbar frm_search_links"> <input type="text" placeholder="Type a string..." name="linkcard_search_string" class="txt_form" onclick="clear_search(\''+card_id+'\', this.form);"> </form>');
var frm_elements = frm_search_link.elements;
for(i=0; i<frm_elements.length; i++) {
field_type = frm_elements[i].type.toLowerCase();
switch (field_type)
{
case "text":
frm_elements[i].value = "";
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
// Close search
function close_search(card_id, form) {
$('form.frm_search_links', $('#'+card_id)).remove();
var card_select = '#'+card_id;
$('.link',$(card_select)).removeClass('search_results');
}
// Search links
function search_links (card_id, form) {
var search_str = document.frm_search.linkcard_search_string.value;
var search_select = '.link:contains('+search_str+')';
var card_select = '#'+card_id;
var result = $(search_select,$(card_select)).addClass('search_results');
if (result.length == 0 || result.length == null) document.frm_search.linkcard_search_string.value = 'Not found.';
}
// Clear search
function clear_search (card_id, form) {
document.frm_search.linkcard_search_string.value = '';
var card_select = '#'+card_id;
$('.link',$(card_select)).removeClass('search_results');
}

Get the DOM path of the clicked <a>

HTML
<body>
<div class="lol">
<a class="rightArrow" href="javascriptVoid:(0);" title"Next image">
</div>
</body>
Pseudo Code
$(".rightArrow").click(function() {
rightArrowParents = this.dom(); //.dom(); is the pseudo function ... it should show the whole
alert(rightArrowParents);
});
Alert message would be:
body div.lol a.rightArrow
How can I get this with javascript/jquery?

Here is a native JS version that returns a jQuery path. I'm also adding IDs for elements if they have them. This would give you the opportunity to do the shortest path if you see an id in the array.
var path = getDomPath(element);
console.log(path.join(' > '));
Outputs
body > section:eq(0) > div:eq(3) > section#content > section#firehose > div#firehoselist > article#firehose-46813651 > header > h2 > span#title-46813651
Here is the function.
function getDomPath(el) {
var stack = [];
while ( el.parentNode != null ) {
console.log(el.nodeName);
var sibCount = 0;
var sibIndex = 0;
for ( var i = 0; i < el.parentNode.childNodes.length; i++ ) {
var sib = el.parentNode.childNodes[i];
if ( sib.nodeName == el.nodeName ) {
if ( sib === el ) {
sibIndex = sibCount;
}
sibCount++;
}
}
if ( el.hasAttribute('id') && el.id != '' ) {
stack.unshift(el.nodeName.toLowerCase() + '#' + el.id);
} else if ( sibCount > 1 ) {
stack.unshift(el.nodeName.toLowerCase() + ':eq(' + sibIndex + ')');
} else {
stack.unshift(el.nodeName.toLowerCase());
}
el = el.parentNode;
}
return stack.slice(1); // removes the html element
}

Using jQuery, like this (followed by a solution that doesn't use jQuery except for the event; lots fewer function calls, if that's important):
$(".rightArrow").click(function () {
const rightArrowParents = [];
$(this)
.parents()
.addBack()
.not("html")
.each(function () {
let entry = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
const className = this.className.trim();
if (className) {
entry += "." + className.replace(/ +/g, ".");
}
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
});
console.log(rightArrowParents.join(" "));
return false;
});
Live example:
$(".rightArrow").click(function () {
const rightArrowParents = [];
$(this)
.parents()
.addBack()
.not("html")
.each(function () {
let entry = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
const className = this.className.trim();
if (className) {
entry += "." + className.replace(/ +/g, ".");
}
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
});
console.log(rightArrowParents.join(" "));
return false;
});
<div class=" lol multi ">
Click here
</div>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
(In the live examples, I've updated the class attribute on the div to be lol multi to demonstrate handling multiple classes.)
That uses parents to get the ancestors of the element that was clicked, removes the html element from that via not (since you started at body), then loops through creating entries for each parent and pushing them on an array. Then we use addBack to add the a back into the set, which also changes the order of the set to what you wanted (parents is special, it gives you the parents in the reverse of the order you wanted, but then addBack puts it back in DOM order). Then it uses Array#join to create the space-delimited string.
When creating the entry, we trim className (since leading and trailing spaces are preserved, but meaningless, in the class attribute), and then if there's anything left we replace any series of one or more spaces with a . to support elements that have more than one class (<p class='foo bar'> has className = "foo bar", so that entry ends up being p.foo.bar).
Just for completeness, this is one of those places where jQuery may be overkill, you can readily do this just by walking up the DOM:
$(".rightArrow").click(function () {
const rightArrowParents = [];
for (let elm = this; elm; elm = elm.parentNode) {
let entry = elm.tagName.toLowerCase();
if (entry === "html") {
break;
}
const className = elm.className.trim();
if (className) {
entry += "." + className.replace(/ +/g, ".");
}
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
}
rightArrowParents.reverse();
console.log(rightArrowParents.join(" "));
return false;
});
Live example:
$(".rightArrow").click(function () {
const rightArrowParents = [];
for (let elm = this; elm; elm = elm.parentNode) {
let entry = elm.tagName.toLowerCase();
if (entry === "html") {
break;
}
const className = elm.className.trim();
if (className) {
entry += "." + className.replace(/ +/g, ".");
}
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
}
rightArrowParents.reverse();
console.log(rightArrowParents.join(" "));
return false;
});
<div class=" lol multi ">
Click here
</div>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
There we just use the standard parentNode property (or we could use parentElement) of the element repeatedly to walk up the tree until either we run out of parents or we see the html element. Then we reverse our array (since it's backward to the output you wanted), and join it, and we're good to go.

I needed a native JS version, that returns CSS standard path (not jQuery), and deals with ShadowDOM. This code is a minor update on Michael Connor's answer, just in case someone else needs it:
function getDomPath(el) {
if (!el) {
return;
}
var stack = [];
var isShadow = false;
while (el.parentNode != null) {
// console.log(el.nodeName);
var sibCount = 0;
var sibIndex = 0;
// get sibling indexes
for ( var i = 0; i < el.parentNode.childNodes.length; i++ ) {
var sib = el.parentNode.childNodes[i];
if ( sib.nodeName == el.nodeName ) {
if ( sib === el ) {
sibIndex = sibCount;
}
sibCount++;
}
}
// if ( el.hasAttribute('id') && el.id != '' ) { no id shortcuts, ids are not unique in shadowDom
// stack.unshift(el.nodeName.toLowerCase() + '#' + el.id);
// } else
var nodeName = el.nodeName.toLowerCase();
if (isShadow) {
nodeName += "::shadow";
isShadow = false;
}
if ( sibCount > 1 ) {
stack.unshift(nodeName + ':nth-of-type(' + (sibIndex + 1) + ')');
} else {
stack.unshift(nodeName);
}
el = el.parentNode;
if (el.nodeType === 11) { // for shadow dom, we
isShadow = true;
el = el.host;
}
}
stack.splice(0,1); // removes the html element
return stack.join(' > ');
}

Here is a solution for exact matching of an element.
It is important to understand that the selector (it is not a real one) that the chrome tools show do not uniquely identify an element in the DOM. (for example it will not distinguish between a list of consecutive span elements. there is no positioning/indexing info)
An adaptation from a similar (about xpath) answer
$.fn.fullSelector = function () {
var path = this.parents().addBack();
var quickCss = path.get().map(function (item) {
var self = $(item),
id = item.id ? '#' + item.id : '',
clss = item.classList.length ? item.classList.toString().split(' ').map(function (c) {
return '.' + c;
}).join('') : '',
name = item.nodeName.toLowerCase(),
index = self.siblings(name).length ? ':nth-child(' + (self.index() + 1) + ')' : '';
if (name === 'html' || name === 'body') {
return name;
}
return name + index + id + clss;
}).join(' > ');
return quickCss;
};
And you can use it like this
console.log( $('some-selector').fullSelector() );
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/zhnr198y/

The short vanilla ES6 version I ended up using:
Returns the output I'm used to read in Chrome inspector e.g body div.container input#name
function getDomPath(el) {
let nodeName = el.nodeName.toLowerCase();
if (el === document.body) return 'body';
if (el.id) nodeName += '#' + el.id;
else if (el.classList.length)
nodeName += '.' + [...el.classList].join('.');
return getDomPath(el.parentNode) + ' ' + nodeName;
};

I moved the snippet from T.J. Crowder to a tiny jQuery Plugin. I used the jQuery version of him even if he's right that this is totally unnecessary overhead, but i only use it for debugging purpose so i don't care.
Usage:
Html
<html>
<body>
<!-- Two spans, the first will be chosen -->
<div>
<span>Nested span</span>
</div>
<span>Simple span</span>
<!-- Pre element -->
<pre>Pre</pre>
</body>
</html>
Javascript
// result (array): ["body", "div.sampleClass"]
$('span').getDomPath(false)
// result (string): body > div.sampleClass
$('span').getDomPath()
// result (array): ["body", "div#test"]
$('pre').getDomPath(false)
// result (string): body > div#test
$('pre').getDomPath()
Repository
https://bitbucket.org/tehrengruber/jquery.dom.path

I've been using Michael Connor's answer and made a few improvements to it.
Using ES6 syntax
Using nth-of-type instead of nth-child, since nth-of-type looks for children of the same type, rather than any child
Removing the html node in a cleaner way
Ignoring the nodeName of elements with an id
Only showing the path until the closest id, if any. This should make the code a bit more resilient, but I left a comment on which line to remove if you don't want this behavior
Use CSS.escape to handle special characters in IDs and node names
~
export default function getDomPath(el) {
const stack = []
while (el.parentNode !== null) {
let sibCount = 0
let sibIndex = 0
for (let i = 0; i < el.parentNode.childNodes.length; i += 1) {
const sib = el.parentNode.childNodes[i]
if (sib.nodeName === el.nodeName) {
if (sib === el) {
sibIndex = sibCount
break
}
sibCount += 1
}
}
const nodeName = CSS.escape(el.nodeName.toLowerCase())
// Ignore `html` as a parent node
if (nodeName === 'html') break
if (el.hasAttribute('id') && el.id !== '') {
stack.unshift(`#${CSS.escape(el.id)}`)
// Remove this `break` if you want the entire path
break
} else if (sibIndex > 0) {
// :nth-of-type is 1-indexed
stack.unshift(`${nodeName}:nth-of-type(${sibIndex + 1})`)
} else {
stack.unshift(nodeName)
}
el = el.parentNode
}
return stack
}

All the examples from other ответов did not work very correctly for me, I made my own, maybe my version will be more suitable for the rest
const getDomPath = element => {
let templateElement = element
, stack = []
for (;;) {
if (!!templateElement) {
let attrs = ''
for (let i = 0; i < templateElement.attributes.length; i++) {
const name = templateElement.attributes[i].name
if (name === 'class' || name === 'id') {
attrs += `[${name}="${templateElement.getAttribute(name)}"]`
}
}
stack.push(templateElement.tagName.toLowerCase() + attrs)
templateElement = templateElement.parentElement
} else {
break
}
}
return stack.reverse().slice(1).join(' > ')
}
const currentElement = document.querySelectorAll('[class="serp-item__thumb justifier__thumb"]')[7]
const path = getDomPath(currentElement)
console.log(path)
console.log(document.querySelector(path))
console.log(currentElement)

var obj = $('#show-editor-button'),
path = '';
while (typeof obj.prop('tagName') != "undefined"){
if (obj.attr('class')){
path = '.'+obj.attr('class').replace(/\s/g , ".") + path;
}
if (obj.attr('id')){
path = '#'+obj.attr('id') + path;
}
path = ' ' +obj.prop('tagName').toLowerCase() + path;
obj = obj.parent();
}
console.log(path);

hello this function solve the bug related to current element not show in the path
check this now
$j(".wrapper").click(function(event) {
selectedElement=$j(event.target);
var rightArrowParents = [];
$j(event.target).parents().not('html,body').each(function() {
var entry = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
if (this.className) {
entry += "." + this.className.replace(/ /g, '.');
}else if(this.id){
entry += "#" + this.id;
}
entry=replaceAll(entry,'..','.');
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
});
rightArrowParents.reverse();
//if(event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase()=="a" || event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase()=="h1"){
var entry = event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase();
if (event.target.className) {
entry += "." + event.target.className.replace(/ /g, '.');
}else if(event.target.id){
entry += "#" + event.target.id;
}
rightArrowParents.push(entry);
// }
where $j = jQuery Variable
also solve the issue with .. in class name
here is replace function :
function escapeRegExp(str) {
return str.replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\])/g, "\\$1");
}
function replaceAll(str, find, replace) {
return str.replace(new RegExp(escapeRegExp(find), 'g'), replace);
}
Thanks

$(".rightArrow")
.parents()
.map(function () {
var value = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
if (this.className) {
value += '.' + this.className.replace(' ', '.', 'g');
}
return value;
})
.get().reverse().join(", ");

JQuery/Javascript - Search DOM for text and insert HTML

How do I search the DOM for a certain string in the document's text (say, "cheese") then insert some HTML immediately after that string (say, "< b >is fantastic< /b >").
I have tried the following:
for (var tag in document.innerHTML) {
if (tag.matches(/cheese/) != undefined) {
document.innerHTML.append(<b>is fantastic</b>
}
}
(The above is more of an illustration of what I have tried, not the actual code. I expect the syntax is horribly wrong so please excuse any errors, they are not the problem).
Cheers,
Pete

There are native methods for finding text inside a document:
MSIE:textRange.findText()
Others: window.find()
Manipulate the given textRange if something was found.
Those methods should provide much more performance than the traversing of the whole document.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<script>
function fx(a,b)
{
if(window.find)
{
while(window.find(a))
{
var node=document.createElement('b');
node.appendChild(document.createTextNode(b));
var rng=window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);
rng.collapse(false);
rng.insertNode(node);
}
}
else if(document.body.createTextRange)
{
var rng=document.body.createTextRange();
while(rng.findText(a))
{
rng.collapse(false);
rng.pasteHTML('<b>'+b+'</b>');
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="fx('cheese','is wonderful')">
<p>I've made a wonderful cheesecake with some <i>cheese</i> from my <u>chees</u>e-factory!</p>
</body>
</html>

This is crude and not the way to do it, but;
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/cheese/, 'cheese <b>is fantastic</b>');

You can use this with JQuery:
$('*:contains("cheese")').each(function (idx, elem) {
var changed = $(elem).html().replace('cheese', 'cheese <b>is fantastic</b>');
$(elem).html(changed);
});
I haven't tested this, but something along these lines should work.
Note that * will match all elements, even html, so you may want to use body *:contains(...) instead to make sure only elements that are descendants of the document body are looked at.

Sample Solution:
<ul>
<li>cheese</li>
<li>cheese</li>
<li>cheese</li>
</ul>
Jquery codes:
$('ul li').each(function(index) {
if($(this).text()=="cheese")
{
$(this).text('cheese is fantastic');
}
});

The way to do this is to traverse the document and search each text node for the desired text. Any way involving innerHTML is hopelessly flawed.
Here's a function that works in all browsers and recursively traverses the DOM within the specified node and replaces occurrences of a piece of text with nodes copied from the supplied template node replacementNodeTemplate:
function replaceText(node, text, replacementNodeTemplate) {
if (node.nodeType == 3) {
while (node) {
var textIndex = node.data.indexOf(text), currentNode = node;
if (textIndex == -1) {
node = null;
} else {
// Split the text node after the text
var splitIndex = textIndex + text.length;
var replacementNode = replacementNodeTemplate.cloneNode(true);
if (splitIndex < node.length) {
node = node.splitText(textIndex + text.length);
node.parentNode.insertBefore(replacementNode, node);
} else {
node.parentNode.appendChild(replacementNode);
node = null;
}
currentNode.deleteData(textIndex, text.length);
}
}
} else {
var child = node.firstChild, nextChild;
while (child) {
nextChild = child.nextSibling;
replaceText(child, text, replacementNodeTemplate);
child = nextChild;
}
}
}
Here's an example use:
replaceText(document.body, "cheese", document.createTextNode("CHEESE IS GREAT"));
If you prefer, you can create a wrapper function to allow you to specify the replacement content as a string of HTML instead:
function replaceTextWithHtml(node, text, html) {
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = html;
var templateNode = document.createDocumentFragment();
while (div.firstChild) {
templateNode.appendChild(div.firstChild);
}
replaceText(node, text, templateNode);
}
Example:
replaceTextWithHtml(document.body, "cheese", "cheese <b>is fantastic</b>");
I've incorporated this into a jsfiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/timdown/azZsa/

Works in all browsers except IE I think, need confirmation though.
This supports content in iframes as well.
Note, other examples I have seen, like the one above, are RECURSIVE which is potentially bad in javascript which can end in stack overflows, especially in a browser client which has limited memory for such things. Too much recursion can cause javascript to stop executing.
If you don't believe me, try the examples here yourself...
If anyone would like to contribute, the code is here.
function grepNodes(searchText, frameId) {
var matchedNodes = [];
var regXSearch;
if (typeof searchText === "string") {
regXSearch = new RegExp(searchText, "g");
}
else {
regXSearch = searchText;
}
var currentNode = null, matches = null;
if (frameId && !window.frames[frameId]) {
return null;
}
var theDoc = (frameId) ? window.frames[frameId].contentDocument : document;
var allNodes = (theDoc.all) ? theDoc.all : theDoc.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (var nodeIdx in allNodes) {
currentNode = allNodes[nodeIdx];
if (!currentNode.nodeName || currentNode.nodeName === undefined) {
break;
}
if (!(currentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase().match(/html|script|head|meta|link|object/))) {
matches = currentNode.innerText.match(regXSearch);
var totalMatches = 0;
if (matches) {
var totalChildElements = 0;
for (var i=0;i<currentNode.children.length;i++) {
if (!(currentNode.children[i].nodeName.toLowerCase().match(/html|script|head|meta|link|object/))) {
totalChildElements++;
}
}
matchedNodes.push({node: currentNode, numMatches: matches.length, childElementsWithMatch: 0, nodesYetTraversed: totalChildElements});
}
for (var i = matchedNodes.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
previousElement = matchedNodes[i - 1];
if (!previousElement) {
continue;
}
if (previousElement.nodesYetTraversed !== 0 && previousElement.numMatches !== previousElement.childElementsWithMatch) {
previousElement.childElementsWithMatch++;
previousElement.nodesYetTraversed--;
}
else if (previousElement.nodesYetTraversed !== 0) {
previousElement.nodesYetTraversed--;
}
}
}
}
var processedMatches = [];
for (var i =0; i < matchedNodes.length; i++) {
if (matchedNodes[i].numMatches > matchedNodes[i].childElementsWithMatch) {
processedMatches.push(matchedNodes[i].node);
}
}
return processedMatches;
};