[jQuery] Re: How to make the first word bold.

[Karl Swedberg]

You could also do this with a regular expression. Maybe something  
like this:

var mystring = $('#title a:first').html();
var firstword = mystring.replace(/(^\w+)/,'<strong>$1</strong>');
$('#title a:first').html(firstword);

--Karl
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On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Somebody else probably has a more consice method but you could try
something like this

var mystring = "One Two Three"; //replace with your string
var stringarray = mystring.split(" ");
var firstword = mystring.split(" ")[0];
myarray = jQuery.grep(stringarray, function(n, i){
      return (i > 0);
});
$("div#title a").append("<strong>" + firstword + "</strong>
").append(myarray.join(" "));


On Nov 11, 8:56 pm, Viktor Tarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to make the first word of a sentence (a title from a
generated feed) bold.

TURN THIS:

<div id="title">
        <a href="123.html">One Two Three</a>
</div>

INTO THIS:

<div id="title">
        <a href="123.html"><strong>One</strong> Two Three</a>
</div>

I sure there is a way to do with jQuery, but I can't quite figure it
out. I have tried something like this, with no luck:

$("#title.a").contents(0).wrap("<strong></strong>");

Any help would be greatly appreciated.