I'm trying to make text (fat) bold. Curretly I managed to do this whit code below:

Movie <b>fat</b> was been added

But this bold tags won't work. Now the question is how to enable html for only (fat), to be bold like this: Movie fat was been added

My code so far:

var boldy = (Movie[0].title)
var fat = boldy.bold()

$("div.container div:first").text("Movie " + (fat) + " was been added")

I also tried whit this:

$("div.container div:first").html("Hello <b>"+(boldy)+"</b>")

I'm trying to make text (fat) bold. Curretly I managed to do this whit code below:

Movie <b>fat</b> was been added

But this bold tags won't work. Now the question is how to enable html for only (fat), to be bold like this: Movie fat was been added

My code so far:

var boldy = (Movie[0].title)
var fat = boldy.bold()

$("div.container div:first").text("Movie " + (fat) + " was been added")

I also tried whit this:

$("div.container div:first").html("Hello <b>"+(boldy)+"</b>")

• javascript
• jquery

• The second example .html(...) works. Is Movie[0].title defined / empty string? – le_m Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 22:33
• Second example returns empty string, yes and nothing happens. – Slasher Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 22:34
• so... is Movie[0].title empty? What does console.log(boldy); print? – le_m Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 22:36
• My first example applys <b> like it should. But html inside .text() is not working. – Slasher Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 22:37
• 1 @Shasher It's not a bug, it's a feature - .text() does not render HTML - that's why you have .html(). – le_m Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 22:38

4 Answers 4

var word ="fat"
$("div:first").html("Movie <b>"+word+"</b> was been added")

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis./ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div></div>

You can use the following:

$("div.container div:first").css("font-weight","Bold");

That will change the property font-weight from that div to bold.

@EDIT: You can make a div with an ID and set that ID on the jQuery mention:

$("div.container div:first div#text").css("font-weight","Bold");

var world = 'world';
$("div").html(`Hello <b>${world}</b>`);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis./ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
  Movie fat was been added
</div>

var html = $("div.container div:first").html;
$("div.container div:first").html(html.replace(/fat/gi, '<strong>$& </strong>'));