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Javascript - How to style specific word in a string of text?

I have a string of text here that will be dynamically generated to be one of the following:
<h1 id="headline">"Get your FREE toothbrush!"</h1>
OR
<h1 id="headline">"FREE floss set and dentures!"</h1>
Since this will be dynamically generated I won't be able to wrap a <span> around the word "FREE" so I want to specifically target the word "FREE" using Javascript so that I can style it with a different font-family and font-color than whatever styling the <h1> is set to. What methods do I use to go about doing this?

You can search and replace the substring 'FREE' with styled HTML. If 'FREE' occurs more than once in the string you may need to use regex (unless you don't need to support Internet Explorer). See How to replace all occurrences of a string?
In your case:
let str = '<h1 id="headline">"FREE floss set and dentures!"</h1>'
str = str.replace(/FREE/g, '<span color="red">FREE</span>');

The property you are looking for is innerHTML, look the following example:
var word = document.getElementById('word');
function changeWord(){
word.innerHTML = "another";
word.style.backgroundColor = 'black';
word.style.color = 'white';
}
<h1 id="headline">
<span id="word">some</span> base title
</h1>
<button onClick="changeWord()">
change
</button>

Here is a working example using slice and some classic concatenation.
EDIT: Code for the second string is also included now.
//get headline by id
var headline = document.getElementById("headline");
//declare your possible strings in vars
var string1 = "Get your FREE toothbrush!"
var string2 = "FREE floss set and dentures!"
//declare formatted span with "FREE" in var
var formattedFree = "<span style='color: blue; font-style: italic;'>FREE</span>"
//target positions for the rest of your string
var string1Position = 13
var string2Position = 4
//concat your vars into expected positions for each string
var newString1 = string1.slice(0, 9) + formattedFree + string1.slice(string1Position);
var newString2 = formattedFree + string2.slice(string2Position)
//check if strings exist in html, if they do then append the new strings with formatted span
if (headline.innerHTML.includes(string1)) {
headline.innerHTML = newString1
}
else if (headline.innerHTML.includes(string2)) {
headline.innerHTML = newString2
}
<!-- As you can see the original string does not have "FREE" formatted -->
<!-- Change this to your other string "FREE floss set and dentures!" to see it work there as well -->
<h1 id="headline">Get your FREE toothbrush!</h1>

You can split the text and convert the keyword "FREE" to a span element. So you can style the keyword "FREE". This method is safe because does not alter any non-text html element.
var keyword = "FREE";
var headline = document.getElementById("headline");
var highlight, index;
headline.childNodes.forEach(child => {
if (child.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
while ((index = child.textContent.indexOf(keyword)) != -1) {
highlight = child.splitText(index);
child = highlight.splitText(keyword.length);
with(headline.insertBefore(document.createElement("span"), highlight)) {
appendChild(highlight);
className = 'highlight';
}
}
}
});
.highlight {
/* style your keyword */
background-color: yellow;
}
<div id="FREE">
<h1 id="headline">"Get your FREE toothbrush! FREE floss set and dentures!"</h1>
</div>

Better way of extracting text from HTML in Javascript

I'm trying to scrape text from an HTML string by using container.innerText || container.textContent where container is the element from which I want to extract text.
Usually, the text I want to extract is located in <p> tags. So for the HTML below as an example:
<div id="container">
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
</div>
Using
var container = document.getElementById("container");
var text = container.innerText || container.textContent; // the text I want
will return This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence. without a space between the first period and the start of the second sentence.
My overall goal is to parse text using the Stanford CoreNLP, but its parser cannot detect that these are 2 sentences because they are not separated by a space. Is there a better way of extracting text from HTML such that the sentences are separated by a space character?
The HTML I'm parsing will have the text I want mostly in <p> tags, but the HTML may also contain <img>, <a>, and other tags embeeded between <p> tags.

As a dirty hack, try using this:
container.innerHTML.replace(/<.*?>/g," ").replace(/ +/g," ");
This will replace all tags with a space, then collapse multiple spaces into a single one.
Note that if there is a > inside an attribute value, this will mess you up. Avoiding this problem will require more elaborate parsing, such as looping through all text nodes and putting them together.
Longer but more robust method:
function recurse(result, node) {
var c = node.childNodes, l = c.length, i;
for( i=0; i<l; i++) {
if( c[i].nodeType == 3) result += c.nodeValue + " ";
if( c[i].nodeType == 1) result = recurse(result, c[i]);
}
return result;
}
recurse(container);
Assuming I haven't made a stupid mistake, this will perform a depth-first search for text nodes, appending their contents to the result as it goes.

jQuery has the method text() that does what you want. Will this work for you?
I'm not sure if it fits for everything that's in your container but it works in my example. It will also take the text of a <a>-tag and appends it to the text.
Update 20.12.2020
If you're not using jQuery. You could implement the text method with vanilla js like this:
const nodes = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#container"));
const text = nodes
.filter((node) => !!node.textContent)
.map((node) => node.textContent)
.join(" ");
Using querySelectorAll("#container") to get every node in the container. Using Array.from so we can work with Array methods like filter, map & join.
Finally, generate the text by filtering out elements with-out textContent. Then use map to get each text and use join to add a space separator between the text.
$(function() {
var textToParse = $('#container').text();
$('#output').html(textToParse);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="container">
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
<img src="http://placehold.it/200x200" alt="Nice picture"></img>
<p>Third sentence.</p>
</div>
<h2>output:</h2>
<div id="output"></div>

You can use the following function to extract and process the text as shown. It basically goes through all the children nodes of the target element and the child nodes of the child nodes and so on ... adding spaces at appropriate points:
function getInnerText( sel ) {
var txt = '';
$( sel ).contents().each(function() {
var children = $(this).children();
txt += ' ' + this.nodeType === 3 ? this.nodeValue : children.length ? getInnerText( this ) : $(this).text();
});
return txt;
}
function getInnerText( sel ) {
var txt = '';
$( sel ).contents().each(function() {
var children = $(this).children();
txt += ' ' + this.nodeType === 3 ?
this.nodeValue : children.length ?
getInnerText( this ) : $(this).text();
});
return txt;
}
alert( getInnerText( '#container' ) );
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="container">
Some other sentence
<p>This is the first sentence.</p>
<p>This is the second sentence.</p>
</div>

You may use jQuery to traverse down the elements.
Here is the code :
$(document).ready(function()
{
var children = $("#container").find("*");
var text = "";
while (children.html() != undefined)
{
text += children.html()+"\n";
children = children.next();
}
alert(text);
});
Here is the fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/69wezyc5/

How to get innerHTML of DIV without few inside DIV's?

I have some DIV, what contains HTML with images, styles e.t.c. I want to remove exact div's that contains id = 'quot' or className = 'quote', but i don't understand how i can get not only innerHTML of each tag. For example, < p > and < /p > which don't have innerHTML also should be included in final parsed HTML.
var bodytext = document.getElementById("div_text");
var NewText = "";
if (bodytext.hasChildNodes){
var children = bodytext.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++){
if (children[i].id != "quot" && children[i].className != "quote" && children[i].innerText != ""){
NewText = NewText + children[i].innerHTML;
}
}
HTML of source need to be parsed:
<div id="div_text">
<p>
Some Text</p>
<p>
Some Text</p>
<p>
<img alt="" src="localhost/i/1.png" /></p>
<div id="quot" class="quote" />
any text <div>text of inside div</div>
<table><tr><td>there can be table</td></tr></table>
</div>
<p>
</p>
</div>
Desired output:
<p>
Some Text</p>
<p>
Some Text</p>
<p>
<img alt="" src="localhost/i/1.png" /></p>
<p>
</p>

Just grab a reference to the targeted divs and remove them from their respective parents.
Perhaps something a little like this?
EDIT: Added code to perform operation on a clone, rather than the document itself.
div elements don't have .getElementById method, so we search for an element manually.
window.addEventListener('load', myInit, false);
function removeFromDocument()
{
// 1. take car of the element with id='quot'
var tgt = document.getElementById('quot');
var parentNode = tgt.parentNode;
parentNode.removeChild(tgt);
// 2. take care of elements whose class == 'quote'
var tgtList = document.getElementsByClassName('quote');
var i, n = tgtList.length;
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
{
// we really should be checking to ensure that there aren't nested instances of matching divs
// The following would present a problem - <div class='quote'>outer<div class='quote'>inner</div></div>
// since the first iteration of the loop would also remove the second element in the target list,
parentNode = tgtList[i].parentNode;
parentNode.removeChild(tgtList[i]);
}
// 3. remove the containing div
var container = document.getElementById('div_text');
container.outerHTML = container.innerHTML;
}
function cloneAndProcess()
{
var clonedCopy = document.getElementById('div_text').cloneNode(true);
var tgt;// = clonedCopy.getElementById('quot');
var i, n = clonedCopy.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
{
if (clonedCopy.childNodes[i].id == 'quot')
{
tgt = clonedCopy.childNodes[i];
var parentNode = tgt.parentNode;
parentNode.removeChild(tgt);
break; // done with for loop - can only have 1 element with any given id
}
}
// 2. take care of elements whose class == 'quote'
var tgtList = clonedCopy.getElementsByClassName('quote');
var i, n = tgtList.length;
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
{
// we really should be checking to ensure that there aren't nested instances of matching divs
// The following would present a problem - <div class='quote'>outer<div class='quote'>inner</div></div>
// since the first iteration of the loop would also remove the second element in the target list,
parentNode = tgtList[i].parentNode;
parentNode.removeChild(tgtList[i]);
}
// 3. remove the containing div
//var container = clonedCopy; //.getElementById('div_text');
//container.outerHTML = container.innerHTML;
console.log(clonedCopy.innerHTML);
}
function myInit()
{
cloneAndProcess();
//removeFromDocument();
}

how can I call tab key event in javascript

Here is my simple data
John Smith Individual 010987654
I have three textboxes and the above data will automatically insert in the first textbox of my web page.
My problem is
How can I make as soon as data is inserted in the textbox (means when textbox’s onchange event is fired)
First, javascript will find ‘tab’ space in this string
Second, if find ‘tab’ space in the string, javascript will press ‘tab’ key and insert data in the another text box.

Here's a plain old DOM-0 JavaScript solution, just for fun.
document.getElementById('the_form').onchange = function() {
var field = this[0];
var parts = field.value.split('\t');
for (var i = 0; field = this[i]; i++) {
field.value = parts[i] || '';
}
}
http://jsfiddle.net/vKaxP/

I thought you want to split those texts into different textboxes, so I got something like:
$("#a").change(function(){
var s = $(this).val();
if (s.match(/\t+/)) {
var a = s.split(/\t+/);
$('#a').val(a[0]);
$('#b').val(a[1]);
$('#c').val(a[2]);
}
});
if you type a b c into the first input box, press tab or enter, b and c would appear into other textboxes, repectively.
I use \s(space) for test in jsfiddle. You could just change it to \t for tab.

Here is prototype of what you need to do.
HTML:
<div>
<input id="a" />
</div>
<div>
<input id="b" />
</div>
JavaScript:
$('#a').on('change', function () {
var value = $(this).val();
// Test if string has a tab:
if (/\t/.test(value)) {
// Just set the value of the other text box
// And set focus:
// Using jQuery that would be:
$('#b').val(value).focus();
}
});
Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/tkirda/XmArP/

If I correctly understand the question as "The server puts all the data into one field, tab separated, and I want to split it up into several textfields", then try this:
On load:
var fields = [$("#firstField"), $("#secondField"), $("#thirdField")];
var data = fields[0].val().split(/\t/);
for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
fields[i].val(data[i]);
}

RegEx JavaScript problem

I have this text:
<body>
<span class="Forum"><div align="center"></div></span><br />
<span class="Topic">Text</span><br />
<hr />
<b>Text</b> Text<br />
<hr width=95% class="sep"/>
TextText
<hr />
<b>Text</b> -Text<br />
<hr width=95% class="sep"/>
**Text what i need.**
<hr />
and my RegEx for "Text what I need" - /"sep"(.*)hr/m .
It's wrong: Why?

Don’t use regular expression, use DOM methods instead:
var elems = document.getElementByTagName("hr");
for (var i=0; i<elems.length; ++i) {
var elem = elems[i];
if (/(?:^|\s+)sep(?:\s|$)/.test(elem.className) &&
elem.nextSibling && elem.nextSibling.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
var text = elems.nextSibling.nodeValue;
break;
}
}
This selects all HR elements, checks if it has the class sep and grabs the next sibling node if it is a text node.

. doesn't match newlines in JavaScript regular expressions. Try:
/"sep"([\s\S]*)hr/m
IMO, you're much better off going for a different approach, regex isn't ideal for extracting data from HTML. A better method would be to create a div, set the element's innerHTML property to the HTML string you have, then use DOM traversal to find the text node you need.
Here's an example of what I mean: http://www.jsfiddle.net/W33n6/. It uses the following code to get the text:
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = html;
var hrs = div.getElementsByTagName("hr");
for (var i = 0; i < hrs.length; i++) {
if (hrs[i].className == "sep") {
document.body.innerHTML = hrs[i].nextSibling.nodeValue;
break;
}
}​
EDIT: Gumbo's version is a little stricter than mine, checking for the "sep" class among other classes and ensuring the node following is a text node.