Help write regex that will surround certain text with <strong> tags, only if the <strong> tag isn't
- by sahil
I have several posts on a website; all these posts are chat conversations of this type:
AD: Hey!
BC: What's up?
AD: Nothing
BC: Okay
They're marked up as simple paragraphs surrounded by <p> tags.
Using the javascript replace function, I want all instances of "AD" in the beginning of a conversation (ie, all instances of "AD" at the starting of a line followed by a ":") to be surrounded by <strong> tags, but only if the instance isn't already surrounded by a <strong> tag.
What regex should I use to accomplish this? Am I trying to do what this advises against?
The code I'm using is like this:
var posts = document.getElementsByClassName('entry-content');
for (var i = 0; i < posts.length; i++) {
posts[i].innerHTML = posts[i].innerHTML.replace(/some regex here/,
'replaced content here');
}
