I wouldn't know what to suggest about the IE7 problem without seeing the
code in action. Do you have a test page I can look at?

-Mike

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Rua <ra2a...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Awesome thanks that works, but not in ie7?
>
>
> Michael Geary-3 wrote:
> >
> > If the word "anything" is just part of the text inside the div, then it
> > doesn't have a DOM element (tag) of its own. This means you can't select
> > it
> > with a jQuery selector or any kind of DOM manipulation, and you can't
> > apply
> > a CSS style to it.
> >
> > What you can do is rewrite the HTML content of your DIV element.
> >
> > If you know for sure that there is only a single DIV with
> > class="tpSurveyQuestion", then it's simple:
> >
> >     var $question = $('.tpSurveyQuestion');
> >     $question.html(
> >         $question.html().replace( 'anything', 'anything' )
> >     );
> >
> > If there may be multiple DIVs that match that selector, you need to
> handle
> > each one individually:
> >
> >     $('.tpSurveyQuestion').each( function() {
> >         var $question = $(this);
> >         $question.html(
> >             $question.html().replace( 'anything', 'anything' )
> >         );
> >      });
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Rua <ra2a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi I'm trying to select a specific word inside a div and would like to
> >> bold
> >> it, I can't seem to find how to do this anywhere!
> >>
> >> $(".tpSurveyQuestion:contains('anything')").css("font-weight","bold");
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