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Add a space between each character, but in a method

Hey :) I know a similiar question was asked before, but i just cant get it through. I want to create a method called something like makeMeSpaces, so my h2 text will have a space between each character.. and i might want to use it elsewhere aswell. I have this until now, from the logic point of view:
var text = "hello";
var betweenChars = ' '; // a space
document.querySelector("h1").innerHTML = (text.split('').join(betweenChars));
it also works pretty fine, but i think i want to do
<h2>Hello.makeMeSpaces()</h2>
or something like this
Thank you guys!

If you really want this in a 'reusable function,' you'd have to write your own:
function addSpaces(text) {
return text.split('').join(' ');
}
Then, elsewhere in code, you could call it like so:
var elem = document.querySelector('h2');
elem.innerHTML = addSpaces(elem.innerHTML);

Maybe this is what you want , not exactly what you showed but some what similar
Element.prototype.Spacefy = function() {
// innerText for IE < 9
// for others it's just textContent
var elem = (this.innerText) ? this.innerText : this.textContent,
// replacing HTML spaces (' ') with simple spaces (' ')
text = elem.replace(/ /g, " ");
// here , space = " " because HTML ASCII spaces are " "
space = " ",
// The output variable
output = "";
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
// first take a character form element text
output += text[i];
// then add a space
output += space;
};
// return output
this.innerHTML = output;
};
function myFunction() {
var H1 = document.getElementById("H1");
// calling function
H1.Spacefy();
};
<h1 id="H1">
<!-- The tags inside the h1 will not be taken as text -->
<div>
Hello
</div>
</h1>
<br />
<button onclick="myFunction ()">Space-fy</button>
You can also click the button more than once :)
Note :- this script has a flow, it will not work for a nested DOM structure refer to chat to know more
Here is a link to chat if you need to discuss anything
Here is a good codepen provided by bgran which works better

text string output stops after first space, js/html

I apologize in advance, this is the first Stack Overflow question I've posted. I was tasked with creating a new ADA compliant website for my school district's technology helpdesk. I started with minimal knowledge of HTML and have been teaching myself through w3cschools. So here's my ordeal:
I need to create a page for all of our pdf and html guides. I'm trying to create a somewhat interactable menu that is very simple and will populate a link array from an onclick event, but the title="" text attribute drops everything after the first space and I've unsuccessfully tried using a replace() method since it's coming from an array and not static text.
I know I'm probably supposed to use an example, but my work day is coming to a close soon and I wanted to get this posted so I just copied a bit of my actual code.
So here's what's happening, in example 1 of var gmaildocAlt the tooltip will drop everything after Google, but will show the entire string properly with example 2. I was hoping to create a form input for the other helpdesk personnel to add links without knowing how to code, but was unable to resolve the issue of example 1 with a
var fix = gmaildocAlt.replace(/ /g, "&nb sp;")
//minus the space
//this also happens to break the entire function if I set it below the rest of the other variables
I'm sure there are a vast number of things I'm doing wrong, but I would really appreciate the smallest tip to make my tooltip display properly without requiring a replace method.
// GMAIL----------------------------
function gmailArray() {
var gmaildocLink = ['link1', 'link2'];
var gmaildocTitle = ["title1", "title2"];
var gmaildocAlt = ["Google Cheat Sheet For Gmail", "Google 10-Minute Training For Gmail"];
var gmailvidLink = [];
var gmailvidTitle = [];
var gmailvidAlt = [];
if (document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML == "") {
for (i = 0; i < gmaildocTitle.length; i++) {
arrayGmail = "" + gmaildocTitle[i] + "" + "<br>";
document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML += arrayGmail;
}
for (i = 0; i < gmailvidTitle.length; i++) {
arrayGmail1 = "";
document.getElementById("").innerHTML += arrayGmail1;
}
} else {
document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML = "";
}
}
<div class="fixed1">
<p id="gmail" onclick="gmailArray()" class="gl">Gmail</p>
<ul id="gmailList"></ul>
<p id="calendar" onclick="calendarArray()" class="gl">Calendar</p>
<ul id="calendarList"></ul>
</div>

Building HTML manually with strings can cause issues like this. It's better to build them one step at a time, and let the framework handle quoting and special characters - if you're using jQuery, it could be:
var $link = jQuery("<a></a>")
.attr("href", gmaildocLink[i])
.attr("title", gmaildocAlt[i])
.html(gmaildocTitle[i]);
jQuery("#gmailList").append($link).append("<br>");
Without jQuery, something like:
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.setAttribute("href", gmaildocLink[i]);
link.setAttribute("title", gmaildocAlt[i]);
link.innerHTML = gmaildocTitle[i];
document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML += link.outerHTML + "<br>";
If it matters to your audience, setAttribute doesn't work in IE7, and you have to access the attributes as properties of the element: link.href = "something";.

If you add ' to either side of the variable strings then it will ensure that the whole value is read as a single string. Initially, it was assuming that the space was exiting the Title attribute.
Hope the below helps!
UPDATE: If you're worried about using apostrophes in the title strings, you can use " by escaping them using a . This forces JS to read it as a character and not as part of the code structure. See the example below.
Thanks for pointing this one out guys! Sloppy code on my part.
// GMAIL----------------------------
function gmailArray() {
var gmaildocLink = ['link1', 'link2'];
var gmaildocTitle = ["title1", "title2"];
var gmaildocAlt = ["Google's Cheat Sheet For Gmail", "Google 10-Minute Training For Gmail"];
var gmailvidLink = [];
var gmailvidTitle = [];
var gmailvidAlt = [];
if (document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML == "") {
for (i = 0; i < gmaildocTitle.length; i++) {
var arrayGmail = "" + gmaildocTitle[i] + "" + "<br>";
document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML += arrayGmail;
}
for (var i = 0; i < gmailvidTitle.length; i++) {
var arrayGmail1 = "";
document.getElementById("").innerHTML += arrayGmail1;
}
} else {
document.getElementById("gmailList").innerHTML = "";
}
}
<div class="fixed1">
<p id="gmail" onclick="gmailArray()" class="gl">Gmail</p>
<ul id="gmailList"></ul>
<p id="calendar" onclick="calendarArray()" class="gl">Calendar</p>
<ul id="calendarList"></ul>
</div>

Get text between tags using javascript

I am trying to get prices from between span tags. I would like to have all prices in an array. I cant seem to get it to work, I am guessing my regex is incorrect.
I am looking for any span tags with the class 'amount', the tag has no other attributes set and only has one class. E.g. <span class="amount">£9.99</span>
var prices = resp.fragments['data'].match(/<span class=\"amount\">(.*?)<\/span>/g)
.map(function(val){
return val;
});
Output
[ '£9.99', '£100.00' ]
I am trying to get prices from between span tags. I would like to have all prices in an array. I cant seem to get it to work, I am guessing my regex is incorrect.
I am looking for any span tags with the class 'amount', the tag has no other attributes set and only has one class. E.g. <span class="amount">£9.99</span>
var prices = resp.fragments['data'].match(/<span class=\"amount\">(.*?)<\/span>/g)
.map(function(val){
return val;
});
Output
[ '£9.99', '£100.00' ]
* UPDATE *
Turns out it was an encoding with the ajax response resp.fragments['data'].
I was using regex as it is something I have not really used before in JS and thought I would have a play. I did look at many examples and after about 45 mins with no success I thought a fresh set of eyes would fix it.
#spaceman
Thanks for the helpful comment. Your one of those people if someone asked "Is there is a doctor in the house?", you would stand up and say "Sweet load there are loads of doctors out there".

While a regular expression could work for this, it might be easier to simply select the <span class='amount'> elements and map their innerHTML content to an array via the map() function:
// This would yield an array containing your values
var amounts = Array.prototype.slice
.call(document.querySelectorAll('span.amount'))
.map(function(a){ return a.innerHTML; });
You can see a working example of this demonstrated here.

Simplest method will be to add this to an invisible DOM object and then traverse it via DOM API
var text = '<span class="amount">£9.99</span><span class="amount">£9.99</span>'
//now append it to an DOM object
var wrapperDiv = "<div style='display:none' id='tmpDiv'>" + text + "</div>";
document.body.innerHTML += wrapperDiv;
var elements = document.querySelectorAll( "#tmpDiv amount" );
var output = Array.prototype.slice.call( elements ).map( function(val){
return val.innerText;
})
Another approach could be split the text by <span class="amount"> and get the value after first index
DEMO
var text = '<span class="amount">£9.99</span><span class="amount">£9.99</span>'
var output = [];
text.split('<span class="amount">').forEach( function(val, index) {
if (index > 0 )
{
output.push( val.replace( "</span>", "" ) );
}
});
document.body.innerHTML += JSON.stringify( output, 0, 4 );

You can use this instead.
var prices = document.getElementsByClassName('amount');
var price_array = [];
for (i= 0; i < prices.length; ++i) {
price_array.push(prices[i].innerHTML);
}
document.write(" | " + price_array);
<span class='amount'>£123</span>
<span class='amount'>£3</span>
<span class='amount'>£5</span>
<span class='amount'>£64</span>
You don't need to use regex or jQuery for this.

Simple ToDo-List doesn't work

My ToDo List dont wanna work the way i want. I've just been working with JavaScript for 2 weeks sthis is very new to me, therefor the code maybe doesnt look that nice.
The result comes out wrong. If I type in "buy food" the first line gonna show just that, but the next time I wanna add "walk the dog", then it displays
buy food
buy food
walk the dog
I hope you understand my problem. It also ends the unordered list tag after the first click and adds the rest of the things in another.
Here's the JavaScript:
var taskList = [];
var text = "<ul>"
function addToList() {
var task = document.getElementById("toDoTask").value;
taskList.push(task);
for(i = 0; i < taskList.length; i++){
text += "<li>" + taskList[i] + "</li>" ;
}
text += "</ul>";
document.getElementById("todoList").innerHTML = text;
}

The issue is you're closing the ul tag after adding each item. Instead of concatenating raw HTML, consider using element objects and appending, and using a text node object to handle the user input - this removes the possibility of a DOM Based XSS vulnerability.
window.onload = function() {
var taskList = [];
var container = document.getElementById("todoList");
document.getElementById("add").onclick = addToList;
function addToList() {
var task = document.getElementById("toDoTask").value;
taskList.push(task);
var ul = document.createElement('ul');
var li;
for (i = 0; i < taskList.length; i++) {
li = document.createElement('li');
li.appendChild(document.createTextNode(taskList[i]))
ul.appendChild(li);
}
container.innerHTML = '';
container.appendChild(ul);
}
};
Task:
<input id="toDoTask" /> <input type="button" id="add" value="Add" />
<div id="todoList">
</div>

You should not use the innerHtml. This replace all the text of your content. You should just add the li to your ul.
You can do that by using the append function by jquery Append
your <ul> must contain an id like this <ul id="toDoList">
then you make $("#toDoList").append("yourTask");
yourTask must contains the li.
With this, you don't need to iterate on all your element list

Not sure, but you seem to keep adding to text the second time, so text will be something like <ul><li>buy food</li></ul><li>buy food</li><li>walk the dog</li></ul>, which is invalid HTML by the way, but gets outputted anyway...

On each call of function addToList() you should reset the variable text.
For example:
function addToList() {
var task = document.getElementById("toDoTask").value;
taskList.push(task);
text="";
for(i = 0; i < taskList.length; i++){
text += "<li>" + taskList[i] + "</li>" ;
}
text += "</ul>";
document.getElementById("todoList").innerHTML = text;
}
The whole list of items in array will appends to variable text on each call.

looping and prepending javascript to html

I am going to have to repost my previous question because I need to reformulate what I need.
So, here it goes.
I have a webpage containing some list items,
HTML
<div class="container">
<p>Items are ordered Alphabetically and I want the text to be untouched</p>
</div>
All of these list items are contained in a folder on my computer. What I want to do is not have to manually input the ../Html/1.html , ../Html/2.html, ... instead, I was hoping to find a script to do the job for me.
All the items are numbered in numerical order, starting at 1 all the way to 100.
So I know iterating using i++ might come in handy in a loop. But I really dont know more than that!

Use this:
<div id="theContainer" class="container">
<p>Items are ordered Alphabetically and I want the text to be untouched</p>
</div>
<script>
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var container = document.getElementById('theContainer'), i, p, s;
var numStart = 1, numEnd = 100;
var path = '../Html/*.html'; //use "*" to substitute the number
for (i = numStart; i <= numEnd; i++) {
p = path.replace(/\*/,i);
s += '<li>' + p + '</li>';
}
container.innerHTML = container.innerHTML + '<ol>' + s + '</ol>';
}, false);
</script>