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Jan 25.2011

Looking for a simple javascript to remove colons (and possibly other text strings from a page) when it loads.
This looked promsing [URL=”http://javascript.internet.com/snippets/regular-expressions-taster.html”]http://javascript.internet.com/snippets/regular-expressions-taster.html[/URL] but can ‘t seem to get it to work.
Appreciate any help.

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@wbportJan 25.2011 — Does something like
[CODE]stuff=stuff.replace(/:/g,"");[/CODE]
work?
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@avdistributionauthorJan 25.2011 — Nope. I found this which does, but it also wipes out the styling associated with the element:
[CODE]$(document).ready(function(){
$("#element").each(function () { //for #element
var s=$(this).text(); //get text
$(this).text(s.replace(/:/g, ' ')); //set text to the replaced version
});
}); [/CODE]

Demo here.
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@avdistributionauthorJan 25.2011 — Ok, I got it thanks to vinhboy and user576875 at stackoverflow. I kind of figured targeting "text" was affecting html tags but didn't know how to correct.
[CODE]$(document).ready(function(){
$("#element").each(function () { //for element
var s=$(this).html(); //get text
$(this).html(s.replace(/:/g, ' ')); //set text to the replaced version
});
}); [/CODE]
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