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Parse html string and delete some elements

I have a html string and I need to remove all between first occurrence of <div class="c and first close tag > and last closing tag "</div>". The first, should be this because it class is dynamically generated.
For example: <div class="c2029" style="font-size:45px"><p class="auto">Testing 123...</p></div> should be transformed to <p class="auto">Testing 123...</p>
I tried this, but it's removing all string:
var testString = '<div class="c2029" style="font-size:45px"><p class="auto">Testing 123...</p></div>'
var result = testString.replace(/\<div\_c.*\>/, '');
The content into div that should be removed is dynamically generated, it is an example.
More examples of dynamic string generated:
var testString = '<div class="c03"><div style="text-align: center">Testing 123...</div></div>';
var testString = '<div class="c435">Hello</div>';
var testString = '<div class="c1980">TEST</div>';

No need to use regular expressions, you can achieve this with jQuery's $.fn.unwrap:
$('[class^="c"]').children().unwrap()
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="c2029" style="font-size:45px">
<p class="auto">Testing 123...</p>
</div>
To make it more bullet proof and target only element with class staring with "c" and with numbers after you could add additional filtering step:
$('[class^="c"]').filter(function () {
return this.className.match(/\bc\d+\b/)
}).children().unwrap()
This way it will not affect classes like cello (starts with "c").

Regex is wrong tool for this. You can just $.parseHTML() and then find() using [name^=”value”] selector and use it:
var all = ['<div><div class="c2029" style="font-size:45px"><p class="auto">Testing 123...</p></div></div>', '<div><div class="c435">Hello</div></div>', '<div><div class="c1980">TEST</div></div>'];
$.each(all, function(k,s) { f(s); });
function f(s) {
var nodes = $($.parseHTML(s)); // parse string to jquery object
var $p = nodes.find('div[class^="c"]'); // select all classes that starts with c
var inner = $p.prop('innerHTML'); // inner html of $p
console.log("Inner: " + inner);
$p.html(''); // select children of $p and remove
var outer = $p.prop('outerHTML'); // outer html of $p
console.log("Outer: " + outer);
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Based on Stack Overflow answers, I found this solution that resolve my problem:
var testString = '<div class="c2029" style="font-size:45px"><p class="auto">Testing 123...</p></div>'
var result = testString.replace(/<div class="c.*?>(.*?)<\/div>/, '$1');
document.write(result);
console.log(result);

Append/Pass the array values from javascript to HTML Div?

var array = []; //In this i have 2 items
<div id="content"></div>
In this div id I need to pass the above array elements.
Ho can I do this?

Below is the basic example, how you interact with your DOM with javascript.
var array = [1, 2];
var content = document.getElementById("content");
for(var i=0; i< array.length;i++){
content.innerHTML += i + '--' + array[i] + '<br>';
}
<div id="content">
</div>
Big Note:
You can also use Javascript Templating if you are looking for passing a lot of other data as well to the View

You can use document.getElementById to get the id of the <div> and then insert the array as a string which will convert to the comma separated value:
var array = ['apple','ball']; //In this i have 2 items
document.getElementById('content').innerHTML = array.toString();
<div id="content"></div>

You Looking for Something like this ?
<div class="dummy" style="height: 100px;width: 100px;border: 1px solid black;"></div>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
var arr = ['1','2'];
jQuery.each( arr, function( i, val ) {
jQuery('.dummy').append(val);
jQuery('.dummy').append("<br>");
});
});
jsfiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/vis143/c1kz0b8o/

How to make a word count that contains html tags using javascript?

Hi I would like to do a Word Count in my RTE (Rich Text Editor) with javascript can also use with jquery. But it should not count the html tags and repeating white spaces.
Sample Text:
<p>11 22 33</p><p>44</p>5<br></div>
The javascript should display 5 only.
Is there any javascript code for this and that is also fast to calculate the Word Count?
Thanks!

Try something like this:
You get the html in the div then you remove all tags and replace them with spaces. You remove (trim) all left and right spaces and finally you split the string into an array. The length is your answer.
var cont = $("#content").html();
cont = cont.replace(/<[^>]*>/g," ");
cont = cont.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
cont = cont.trim();
var n = cont.split(" ").length
alert(n);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="content">
<p>11 22 33</p><p>44</p>5<br></div>

var words = [];
function getWords(elements) {
elements.contents().each(function() {
if ($(this).contents().length > 0) return getWords($(this));
if ($(this).text()) words = words.concat($(this).text().split(" "));
})
}
getWords($('<div>').html('<p>11 22 33</p><p>44</p>5<br></div>'));
console.log(words,words.length);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

You can do something tricky by using jQuery by creating an element with the content.
var str = '<p>11 22 33</p><p>44</p>5<br></div>';
var len = 0;
// create a temporary jQuery object with the content
$('<div/>', {
html: str
})
// get al child nodes including text node
.contents()
// iterate over the elements
.each(function() {
// now get number or words using match and add
len += (this.textContent.match(/[\w\d]+/g) || '').length;
});
console.log(len);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

You can use Countable.js for live word counting, although it doesn't ignore HTML tags.

exclude the first string from being appended to a character

FIDDLE Example
I'm learning how to append all the data attributes from div.query elements to a url string: http://web.com?get=
With the script I can get this result:
"http://web.com?get=|Africa|Asia|Europe"
But is there any way not to have the first one coupled with "|" so that the url should be
"http://web.com?get=Africa|Asia|Europe"
I want to get that result because either http://web.com?get=|Africa|Asia|Europe
or http://web.com?get=Africa|Asia|Europe| would be invalid. Any suggestions?
JS:
$( document ).ready(function() {
$(".query").each(function() {
var div_terms = $(this).data('term'),
source = $('#main').data('source');
var x = source+'|'+div_terms;
$('#main').data('source',x);
$('.result').html(x);
});
});
HTML:
<div id="main" data-source="http://web.com?get="></div>
<div class="query" data-term="Africa"></div>
<div class="query" data-term="Asia"></div>
<div class="query" data-term="Europe"></div>
<div class="result"></div>

The easiest way is to pull all the countries to an array and join them using the pipe character.
var terms = $('.query').map( function() {
return $(this).data('term');
}).get().join('|');
var source = $('#main').data('source');
$('.result').html( source + terms );
Demo

http://jsfiddle.net/cHtT6/3/
You just need to replace the first '|' in the resulting url with an empty character ''.

Make it simple use javascript join function
$( document ).ready(function() {
var terms=[];
$(".query").each(function() {
var div_terms = $(this).data('term');
terms.push(div_terms);
});
var x = $('#main').data('source')+terms.join("|");
$('.result').html(x);
});
Fiddle here

Use an if statement to check if it's the first 'data-term'. If it is then don't use the | character. Then in the else statement you just do as you've already done

DEMO
Just Check whether end is reached like this:
$( document ).ready(function() {
var i=0;
$(".query").each(function() {
i++;
var div_terms = i==$(".query").length? $(this).data('term')+"":$(this).data('term')+"|",
source = $('#main').data('source');
var x = source+''+div_terms;
$('#main').data('source',x);
$('.result').html(x);
});
});
Here when last term is reached. Automatically only "" is appended in all other cases "|" is appended.

How to get child element by ID in JavaScript?

I have following html:
<div id="note">
<textarea id="textid" class="textclass">Text</textarea>
</div>
How can I get textarea element? I can't use document.getElementById("textid") for it
I'm doing it like this now:
var note = document.getElementById("note");
var notetext = note.querySelector('#textid');
but it doesn't work in IE(8)
How else I can do it? jQuery is ok
Thanks

If jQuery is okay, you can use find(). It's basically equivalent to the way you are doing it right now.
$('#note').find('#textid');
You can also use jQuery selectors to basically achieve the same thing:
$('#note #textid');
Using these methods to get something that already has an ID is kind of strange, but I'm supplying these assuming it's not really how you plan on using it.
On a side note, you should know ID's should be unique in your webpage. If you plan on having multiple elements with the same "ID" consider using a specific class name.
Update 2020.03.10
It's a breeze to use native JS for this:
document.querySelector('#note #textid');
If you want to first find #note then #textid you have to check the first querySelector result. If it fails to match, chaining is no longer possible :(
var parent = document.querySelector('#note');
var child = parent ? parent.querySelector('#textid') : null;

Here is a pure JavaScript solution (without jQuery)
var _Utils = function ()
{
this.findChildById = function (element, childID, isSearchInnerDescendant) // isSearchInnerDescendant <= true for search in inner childern
{
var retElement = null;
var lstChildren = isSearchInnerDescendant ? Utils.getAllDescendant(element) : element.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i < lstChildren.length; i++)
{
if (lstChildren[i].id == childID)
{
retElement = lstChildren[i];
break;
}
}
return retElement;
}
this.getAllDescendant = function (element, lstChildrenNodes)
{
lstChildrenNodes = lstChildrenNodes ? lstChildrenNodes : [];
var lstChildren = element.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i < lstChildren.length; i++)
{
if (lstChildren[i].nodeType == 1) // 1 is 'ELEMENT_NODE'
{
lstChildrenNodes.push(lstChildren[i]);
lstChildrenNodes = Utils.getAllDescendant(lstChildren[i], lstChildrenNodes);
}
}
return lstChildrenNodes;
}
}
var Utils = new _Utils;
Example of use:
var myDiv = document.createElement("div");
myDiv.innerHTML = "<table id='tableToolbar'>" +
"<tr>" +
"<td>" +
"<div id='divIdToSearch'>" +
"</div>" +
"</td>" +
"</tr>" +
"</table>";
var divToSearch = Utils.findChildById(myDiv, "divIdToSearch", true);

(Dwell in atom)
<div id="note">
<textarea id="textid" class="textclass">Text</textarea>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var note = document.getElementById('textid').value;
alert(note);
</script>

Using jQuery
$('#note textarea');
or just
$('#textid');

$(selectedDOM).find();
function looking for all dom objects inside the selected DOM.
i.e.
<div id="mainDiv">
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
<div id="innerDiv">
link
<p>Paragraph 3</p>
</div>
</div>
here if you write;
$("#mainDiv").find("p");
you will get tree p elements together. On the other side,
$("#mainDiv").children("p");
Function searching in the just children DOMs of the selected DOM object. So, by this code you will get just paragraph 1 and paragraph 2. It is so beneficial to prevent browser doing unnecessary progress.