{"id":19850,"date":"2022-11-07T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-javascript-find-and-replace-text-that-is-not-in-a-specific-html-element\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:00:19","slug":"solved-javascript-find-and-replace-text-that-is-not-in-a-specific-html-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-javascript-find-and-replace-text-that-is-not-in-a-specific-html-element\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] JavaScript : Find (and Replace) text that is NOT in a specific HTML element?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-30241940\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"30241940\" data-parentid=\"30239956\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>If, and only if, there are no nested <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code>-tags, you can search for<\/p>\n<p><code>\/(&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;[\\s\\S]*?&lt;\\\/span&gt;)|(\\b(?:foo|bar)(?:\\s+(?:foo|bar))*)\/g<\/code> and replace it with the function<\/p>\n<pre><code>function matchEvaluator(_, span, word) {\n    if (span) return span;\n    return '&lt;span class=\"widget\"&gt;' + word + '&lt;\/span&gt;';\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>the part <code>(&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;[\\s\\S]*?&lt;\\\/span&gt;)<\/code> searches for the span element.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the part, where no nested <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code>-element is allowed. The matched text is returnd unchanged (the reason to match them is to consume all the characters inside <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li><code>&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;<\/code> searches for the start tag &#8211; this could be not sufficient for your needs. Maybe you&#8217;ll try to be more specific, e.g. something like <code>&lt;span\\b(?:\\s+\\w[\\w-]*(?:=(?:\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|\\S*)))*&gt;<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>(\\b(?:foo|bar)(?:\\s+(?:foo|bar))*)<\/code> searches for the words &#8220;foo&#8221; and &#8220;bar&#8221;<br \/>\nIf there is one, it searches for space characters and another &#8220;foo&#8221;<br \/>\nor &#8220;bar&#8221; (repeatedly).<br \/>\nSince the <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code>-tags and all their content is already consumed, you can only match &#8220;foo&#8221; and &#8220;bar&#8221; outside <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code><\/li>\n<li>the matchEvaluator-function tests, if a span element is matched and if so, simply returns the matched text. Otherwise, the words are matched and they are returned wrapped into the new span..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Test:\n<\/p>\n<pre><code>var texts = [\n    \"This is a foo bar sentence\",\n    \"This sentence contains a &lt;span class=\"widget\"&gt;foo bar&lt;\/span&gt; value\"\n];\n\nvar wordsOutsideSpan_rx = \/(&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;[\\s\\S]*?&lt;\\\/span&gt;)|(\\b(?:foo|bar)(?:\\s+(?:foo|bar))*)\/g;\nfunction wrapInSpan(_, span, word) {\n    if (span) return span;\n    return '&lt;span class=\"widget\"&gt;' + word + '&lt;\/span&gt;';\n}\n\ntexts.forEach(function (txt) {\n     console.log(txt.replace(wordsOutsideSpan_rx, wrapInSpan));\n});\n\n\/\/ outputs\n\/\/ \"This is a &lt;span class=\"widget\"&gt;foo bar&lt;\/span&gt; sentence\"\n\/\/ \"This sentence contains a &lt;span class=\"widget\"&gt;foo bar&lt;\/span&gt; value\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">5<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved JavaScript : Find (and Replace) text that is NOT in a specific HTML element? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If, and only if, there are no nested &lt;span&gt;-tags, you can search for \/(&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;[\\s\\S]*?&lt;\\\/span&gt;)|(\\b(?:foo|bar)(?:\\s+(?:foo|bar))*)\/g and replace it with the function function matchEvaluator(_, span, word) { if (span) return span; return &#8216;&lt;span class=&#8221;widget&#8221;&gt;&#8217; + word + &#8216;&lt;\/span&gt;&#8217;; } the part (&lt;span\\b[^&gt;]*&gt;[\\s\\S]*?&lt;\\\/span&gt;) searches for the span element. 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