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Regex in javascript replace function

Am newbie to regex am trying to do some regex replace function in java script here is my content and code
jQuery("td[headers='name_head']").each(function (index, value) {
var text = jQuery(this).html();
if( text.indexOf('<a href=') >= 0){
jQuery(this).text(text.replace(/<a href=.*\"$/, ""));
}
});
Html content will be look like this
Calculate Points
i just want to remove only the value inside href ""
Please throw some light on this
Regards
Sathish

The text() method just retrieves the text contents which doesn't include any HTML tags. You can use html() method with a callback function where you can get the old HTML content as the second argument to the callback and based on the old value generate updated HTML.
The better way is to update the href attribute value of a tag to empty by directly selecting them, there is no need to loop over them since all values need to be empty.
jQuery("td[headers='name_head'] a").attr('href', '');
UPDATE 1 : In case you want to iterate and do some operation based on condition then do something like this.
jQuery("td[headers='name_head'] a").each(function(){
if(//your ondition){
$(this).attr('href', '');
}
});
or
jQuery("td[headers='name_head']").each(function(){
if(//your ondition){
$('a', this).attr('href', '');
}
});
UPDATE 2 : If you want to remove the entire attribute then use removeAttr('href') method which removes the entire attribute itself.
jQuery("td[headers='name_head'] a").removeAttr('href');

Why would you reinvent the wheel?
You don't need regex to achieve this, you can simply do it this way:
jQuery("td[headers='name_head'] a").attr('href', '');
It will set href to "" for all <a> elements inside td[headers='name_head'] so it will always respect your condition.

I haven't tested this code; but something like this should help, don't think you need to use regex for this;
$('a.DisableItemLink[href!=''][href]').each(function(){
var href = $(this).attr('href');
// do something with href
})
This piece of code selects all elements which have the class DisableItemLink with a location set and sets it to blank.
I am curious as to what you are trying to do in the larger scheme of things though, sounds like there might be better ways to go about it.
Reference: some good selector combinations for links

Replace HTML between two tags

What I want to do is replace what is in between two HTML tags.
I'm using this as a reference but I'm still encountering problems:
REFERENCE
This is what I've tried:
el.getValue().replace(/<form.+<\/form>/, "<div></div>");
I need to replace all my form tags dynamically.

If you use jQuery, just retrieve the parent element of what you'd like to be replaced, and replace the content with the .html() function.
Ex:
var formParentElement = $('#formParentElement');
formParentElement.html("<div>my new content</div>");
If you don't use jQuery:
var formParentElement = document.getElementById("formParentElement");
formParentElement.innerHTML = "<div>my new content</div>";
The example assumes the parent element of your form has an ID with value "formParentElement".

Yeah. I found a solution.
el.getValue().replace(/<form[\s\S]*?<\/form>/, "<div></div>");
Explanation by #[James G]:
[\s\S]*? means [any character including space and line breaks]any number of times, and the ? makes the asterisk "not greedy," so it will stop (more quickly) when it finds </form>.
Reference

How to select element with id containing \ in jquery or javascript

we have some legacy code where Html element ID's are populated dynamically from database data (I cant change the data here)
ex. <input type="text" id="2314/test/film/code\branch"/>
when I get the ID from click event like below
var src = window.event.srcElement; I get src.id= "2314/test/film/code\\branch";
I want to use the src.id to find the same element in different function like $(_element).find("[id='" + src.id + "']").get();
which is failing to get any ID since I see "\" is replaced with "\\"
Please suggest me how to get around this ?

I don't think jQuery lets you use / in a selector. It is an illegal character in an id name, but still odd that jquery seems to flat out refuse it. Since JS has no problem with that selector You can select it with JS then pass it off to the jquery wrapper.
$(document.getElementById('2314/test/film/code\\branch'));

Maybe it´s works for you
http://codepen.io/luarmr/pen/vOgoLO
$("[id='" + str.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\') + "']").html(str)

The correct regex for backslash is '\\\\'.

Add code examples on your page with Javascript

I have a html code inside string
string_eng += '<b>Year Bonus</b> - bonus for each year</br></br>';
And I want to put this inside textarea, but when I do it, the result is:
- bonus for each year
It simply deletes all things inside the html tags. I just want to show all the code inside the string. I already tried <xmp>,<pre>, but none of them worked.
Thanks for any help.
EDIT.
Code with which I input data from the array to the textarea/code.
$('body').append('<code class="code_text"></code>');
for(var i=0; i<tag_list.length; i++){
var string='';
string+='---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n';
string+='tag: '+tag_list[i][0]+'\n';
string+='nazwa_pl '+tag_list[i][1]+'\n';
string+='nazwa_eng '+tag_list[i][2]+'\n';
string+='tekst_pl '+tag_list[i][3]+'\n';
string+='tekst_eng '+tag_list[i][4]+'\n';
string+='\n\n\n';
$('.code_text').append(string);
}

I tried this using jsfiddle:
HTML
<textarea id="code"></textarea>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
var string_eng = '';
string_eng += '<b>Year Bonus</b> - bonus for each year</br></br>';
$("#code").html(string_eng);
});
Output (contained in textarea)
<b>Year Bonus</b> - bonus for each year</br></br>
Try it here: http://jsfiddle.net/UH53y/
It does not omit values held within tags, however if you were expecting the <b></b> tags to render as bold within the textarea, or the <br /> tags to render as line breaks, this wont happen either. textarea does not support formatting.
See this question for more information: HTML : How to retain formatting in textarea?

It's because you're using the jQuery .append method which seems to parse the string and insert it afterwards. I don't know jQuery at all, so there might be another special jQuery method, but here is a simple fix:
$('.code_text').append(document.createTextNode(string));
Edit:
I just read and tried the answer of Salman A. The "special jQuery method" exists and he used it. You can use this:
$('.code_text').text(string);

Why JavaScript converts my < into >

JavaScript converts my < into >. I want to alert it but my message is with encoded marks like ##&*()}{>?>? - how to display it normally but prevent from executing as HTML code?
<span id="ID" onClick="alertIt(this.id);">
<p>Some string with special chars: ~!##&*()}{>?>?>|{">##$#^#$</p>
<p>Why when clicked it gives something like this:</p>
<p>'<br>
Some string with special chars: ~!##&*()}{>?>?>|... and so on
<br>'</p>
</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
function alertIt(ID)
{
var ID = ID;
var content = document.getElementById(ID).innerHTML;
alert(content);
}
</script>

Use innerText instead of innerHTML. http://jsfiddle.net/WVf95/

Your problem is that you use the wrong approach to get the text to display with alert().
Some characters are illegal in HTML text (they are used for HTML tags and entities). innerHTML will make sure that text is properly escaped (i.e. you can see tags and escaped text).
If you want to see tag and text in alert(), there is no solution.
If you want only the text, then you will have to extract it yourself. There is no built-in support for that. It's also not really trivial to implement. I suggest to include jQuery in your page; then you can get the text with:
function alertIt(ID) {
alert($(ID).text());
}

Using textContent instaed of innerHTML or innerText is a solution.