Is is possible to select specific text string on the page directly without a id, class, etc...
I have this text string "ERROR: AffiliateID invalid" that I would like to remove from the page.
Is it possible?
Is is possible to select specific text string on the page directly without a id, class, etc...
I have this text string "ERROR: AffiliateID invalid" that I would like to remove from the page.
Is it possible?
Share Improve this question asked Aug 16, 2010 at 21:59 user357034user357034 11k19 gold badges59 silver badges74 bronze badges 3- stackoverflow./questions/1175775/… - this may help you – MartyIX Commented Aug 16, 2010 at 22:02
- Do you have any idea as to which element contains the text? Even just the nested position of the element on the page? Something so that the text can be targeted directly? – user113716 Commented Aug 16, 2010 at 22:12
- Funny because it appears before the <head> tag when looking at the source in FF------> ERROR: AffiliateID invalid <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="w3/1999/xhtml"> <head> – user357034 Commented Aug 16, 2010 at 22:19
1 Answer
Reset to default 12This should solve the problem imho:
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace( /ERROR: AffiliateID invalid/g, "");
The code replaces all occurences of the string with empty string.
EDIT: Use it only if you're 100 percent positive that it won't break your HTML in any way.
EDIT 2:
I don't know about a specific jQuery function for this. I found this tip:
1) http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/javascript/6-quick-jquery-tips-text-manipulation-timers-and-elements.html
Remove a word with jQuery
The simple way – using regular expressions:
var el = $('#id'); el.html(el.html().replace(/word/ig, ""));
The example uses the same replace function as the version in pure javascript. The function es from JavaScript 1.2 (the standard that is 10 years old and is implemented in all major browsers). So I guess there's no reason to use a function from jQuery.
2) There is a plugin for replacing text in specified HTML tags. Maybe it is worth trying.