jquery replace problem

Question

Any ideas why this jquery is not working?

$("div.aboutText p a").each( function() {
 $(this).replace(' ', 'ert');
});

OK... so I have a link that looks something like this...

<a href="#">My Link</a>

And I want it to look something like this...

<a href="#">MyertLink</a>

• powtac: replace can not be run on a jQuery object. What do you want to do?

Answer 1

.replace() is a string method - it won't work on a jQuery object. Try:

$(this).text($(this).text().replace(" ", "ert"))

• Tom: $(this).text($(this).text().replace(/ /gi, 'ert')); - this replaces every occurrence of a space. Thanks!

Answer 2

When you want to replace something in the text of the a tag use this:

$("div.aboutText p a").each( function() {
 $(this).text($(this).text().replace('/ /', 'ert'));
});

Answer 3

.replace() is a plain Javascript method, it's not encapsulated by jQuery. So I guess you want to replace either the text() or the href value from your anchors.

$("div.aboutText p a").each( function() {
 $(this).text(function(i, text) {
 return text.replace(' ', 'ert');
 });
});

or

$("div.aboutText p a").each( function() {
 $(this).attr('href', (function(i, href) {
 return href.replace(' ', 'ert');
 });
});

Answer 4

You should replace text or html:

$(this).html($(this).html().replace(" ", "ert"));

Or:

$(this).text($(this).text().replace(" ", "ert"));

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To actually replace all instances of space, you will have to use regex with /g modifier like this:

$(this).text($(this).text().replace(/' '/g, 'ert'));

Another method would be using split and join like this:

$(this).text($(this).text().split(' ').join('ert'));

• Bobby Jack: I'm pretty sure .text() returns by value, so this won't actually set the text

Answer 5

Look here: How to change the href for a hyperlink using jQuery

Answer 6

What you want might be this instead:

$("div.aboutText p a").each(function() {
 var t = $(this).text().replace(" ","ert");
 $(this).text(t);
});

$(this) will return the a tag, but what part of the A tag are you trying to replace? the text?