Oh sorry, the code I gave you just modifies the loaded HTML and doesn't write it back so this should work for you:
// This is to prevent two searches var email = $('span.email'); email.html( email.html().replace('[monkeytail]', '@') ); Enjoy On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:33 PM, IschaGast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $('span.email').html().replace('[monkeytail]', '@'); > > I was also thinking it should be something like this, but this doesn't > work... > This should be possible some way I hope. > > > And you probably also need: > > > > $('span.email').html().replace('[dot]', '.'); > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:26 AM, IschaGast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I have this: <span class="email">contact [monkeytail] yabadabadoo > > > [dot] .com</span> > > > Now I want to replace the text [monkeytail] with some other text. > > > > > Is there a simple solution that I can get the monkeytail text and > > > replace it with something else? > > > > -- > > Isaak Malik > > Web Developer > -- Isaak Malik Web Developer