First, you need to get jQuery in the mix by doing $(html).find().
Then, you should probably be using this syntax:
$(html).find('td:contains("UP")').replaceWith(...);
Even better than replaceWith, if you only care about the contents of
the <td> tags would be .html('<img ... />');
On May 25, 8:47 pm, DanN <danny_no...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a variable called html thats created on document load with
> jquery and XML, I want to search that variable for a string, and
> replace it with another.
>
> ie
>
> html = '<td>UP</td><td>DOWN</td><td>UP</td><td>UP</td><td>DOWN</
> td><td>UP</td>'
>
> I then basically want to do:
>
> html.find("<td>UP</td>").replaceWith("<td><img...></td>")
>
> It does not need to be recursive, but can be.
>
> If recursive, will get used before the var is dumped to a div. If not
> will get used in the loop and change the html var as created and wont
> matter. Either way, as long as it works.
>
> I tried several things, but kept getting this error:
>
> uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: >
>
> Please help!
