replace textarea in jquery

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I'm trying to Replace a %%%VERSION%%% text, the text is coming from an tinyMCE editor.

looks like this.

$("#description textarea").val($("#description textarea").val().replace(/%%%VERSION%%%/g, STAT_VERSION_INFO));

The value of the textearea is:

<textarea rows="20" cols="117" name="description" id="description">Some code version info: %%%VERSION%%%</textarea>

But i can't make it replace anything.

I reimplemented the code and your basic idea is sound. But as mentioned below $('#description textarea') does not match your textarea. Basically your selector is wrong so use one of the answers below and you should be golden! — MDCore
– MDCore, Commented Nov 16, 2009 at 11:02

Josh Stodola · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-16 14:15:14Z

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Use html() for textareas...

var txt = $("#description");
txt.html(txt.html().replace(/%%%VERSION%%%/g, '');

answered Nov 16, 2009 at 14:15

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Eivind · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-16 11:51:22Z

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Change .val() to .html() and it works: Example here http://jsbin.com/uwidu/

answered Nov 16, 2009 at 11:51

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AndreasKnudsen · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-17 11:02:46Z

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To select: $("#description textarea") => $("textarea#description") or just $("#description")

To do the changes:

var textarea = $("textarea#description");
var text = textarea.html().replace(/%%%VERSION%%%/g, '');
textarea.html(text);

edited Nov 17, 2009 at 11:02

answered Nov 16, 2009 at 10:56

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william Over a year ago

As i told @Darin Dimitrov this dosen't seems to have any effects on the VERSION tags.. ( I know about the above text ). thx

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-16 10:51:31Z

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Just replace $("#description textarea") with $("#description") or $("textarea#description"). The first selector will look for a textarea inside a DOM element with id=description, while in your case it is the textarea that has id=description.

Hope this makes sense.

answered Nov 16, 2009 at 10:51

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william Over a year ago

I tried your solution, but nothing seems to fix it :S If i replace another text instead of the %%%VERSION%%%, it works fine... but not with the version tags :S

MDCore Over a year ago

Do you have more than one element id'd with #description?

william Over a year ago

No, nothing.. :-( Could it be the replace(/%%%VERSION%%%/g That need to be changed ? The current text looks like this: /static/%%%VERSION%%%/

MDCore Over a year ago

Your regex is fine. I recreated it as you specified in the question and it works just fine in firefox 3.5.

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