RegEx That Allows Whitespace?
Jul 21, 2010How would I get this variable to allow whitespace?
var illegalChars = /W/; // allow letters, numbers, and underscores
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Whitespace
May 10, 2006I'm trying to figure out reading XML into Javascript, and, frustrating as that is alone, what really boggles my mind is Mozilla's default NOT to ignore whitespace! I realize this may have its applications, but for the sake of my sanity (not to mention being cross-browser), I NEED to parse my XML document WITHOUT whitespace!
All I want to do essentially, is read in an XML document that has, let's say, 100 or so <character> nodes off the root, and output their text values into the HTML. Not so hard right? But if I make an XML document that I can actually READ (so that I don't go insane), I'm going to wind up with much more than 100 nodes thanks to reading in the whitespace... what can I do about this?
I've seen custom functions that will remove the whitespace nodes for me, but certainly there's an easier way to do this?!?
Maintaining Whitespace
Jul 9, 2005I'm creating a preview function that opens a new window, and then writes the values of the text fields, now my script is below, but I need to be able to make sure that the enters/breaks/carriage returns are kept when calling this page. The data I require to keep these breaks is an text area. Code:
View 3 Replies View RelatedKeeping Whitespace In ResponseText, Etc.
Aug 24, 2006I'm trying to access the source of an HTML page with as few alterations
from the actual source (as in, that seen from the View Source option)
as I can. The method document.documentElement.innerHTML returns the
HTML source, but adds HEAD and other elements if they are absent from
the source, and takes out whitespace (i.e., line feeds, carriage
returns and tabs) within tags and between tags. The follow function:
function xhr() {
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
xhr.open("GET","test-page.html",true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState==4) {
alert(xhr.responseText);
}
}
xhr.send(null)
}
doesn't add or alter any tags that are absent in the source, and does
not take out line feeds within tags; it does, however, still take out
all non-line-feed whitespace within tags and all whitespace in general
between tags.
It seems that preserving whitespace is all that I need, but I haven't
found a way to do that through my searches. So is there any way to get
the unaltered HTML source of a page without innerHTML or applets, like
a better version of the XMLHttpRequest object's responseText method?
JQuery :: Using CSS Class With Whitespace
Jan 10, 2012I am toying around with this great plugin and want to use a css class with a whitespace in it. Can I do this somehow? If I use "error message" as errorClass it wont remove the error messages. But if I use "error-messages" it works, why is that?
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Dec 8, 2009I have a string containing whitespaces, for example, "Michael Douglasemail.com". In Javascript, how can I replace the whitespace with underscore? "Michael_Douglasemail.com"
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Dec 15, 2011I print random text through php/mysql on my page and near the text there is a button which i want to be floated on the right.Between these two there is a whitespace which is not generated through php.How can i replace whitespace with "/"?I know the replace function for strings but how can i define a string here for something that doesnt exist(whitespace)?code...
View 2 Replies View RelatedReplace Whitespace Characters In String
Oct 12, 2005I have a JavaScript string. I want to replace all consecutive
occurrences of whitespace characters like spaces, tabs, newlines, and
form feeds with another string.
For example, say I have a string consisting of:
-- 3 spaces
-- The characters "hello"
-- 2 newline (
) characters
-- The characters "goodbye"
-- 5 spaces
After applying some sort of regular expression to replace consecutive
occurrences of whitespace chars with the string "X", the string should
consist of the following:
-- The character "X"
-- The characters "hello"
-- The character "X"
-- The characters "goodbye"
-- The character "X"
How could I do this using regular expressions? I'm quite familiar with
JavaScript but don't know anything about regular expressions or using
them in JavaScript, so please show me step-by-step how it's done.
JQuery :: Chrome - With Whitespace In Selector ?
May 11, 2011The following works in Chrome:
But this doesn't
The only difference is the space between 'input' and '[type=checkbox]'
Both versions work in FF and IE.
Preserve Whitespace Textarea When Transform To <p>?
Nov 8, 2011I currently have a <p> where it changes to a textarea when a button is clicked How do I preserve the whitespace when saving that text to a database and displaying back to a <p>?
View 2 Replies View RelatedCleaning Useless Whitespace In Mozilla DOM
Sep 29, 2002const notWhitespace = /S/
function cleanWhitespace(node) {
for (var x = 0; x < node.childNodes.length; x++) {
var childNode = node.childNodes[x]
if ((childNode.nodeType == 3)&&(!notWhitespace.test(childNode.nodeValue))) {
// that is, if it's a whitespace text node
node.removeChild(node.childNodes[x])
x--
}
if (childNode.nodeType == 1) {
// elements can have text child nodes of their own
cleanWhitespace(childNode)
}
}
}
document.addEventListener("load", function() {
cleanWhitespace(document)
}, true)
This script is intended to remove whitespace text nodes from a document. These nodes show up far more often than we want to admit, and leads to a DOM that is different in Mozilla than IE.
Make sure you use this only in documents where whitespace is expendable. XHTML documents are among these, as are MathML expressions and SVG images.
Theoretically, whitespace can be significant in some XML documents.
How To Catch Whole Line Or Recognize Whitespace Sign In PDF
Dec 21, 2005How to catch whole line in the PDF document using javascript?
or How to recognize/catch whitespace signs (e.g. "
" ) in PDF document
Which method I should use?
Or any other possibility are ?
JQuery :: Tabbed Content Causing Extreme Whitespace In FF?
Sep 17, 2009Major JQuery noob here. I'm working on a directory for a client's site and for some reason, in Firefox, the page is running really long with extra whitespace at the bottom where each tabbed div should end.[URL]...
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhitespace Trouble In Form Element Names W/javascript
Oct 5, 2001I am having difficulty using javascript to validate form fields with whitespaces in the element names (ex: First Name, Last Name).
here's a code snippet:
###
function validate(formObj) {
if (document.form1.Payment Method.checked){
do something here...}
###
the problem is that javascript won't read the element "Payment Method" unless i mash the name into one word. (i don't want to do that because i later use the element names to provide a printable customer receipt
i tried using the ascii octal number for a whitespace in the above code (...form1.Payment40Method.checked...), but to no avail.
JQuery :: Validation Plugin - Email Validation And Whitespace?
Jul 28, 2010I am using the jquery validation plugin to validate a form's email address field. The validation works but with the minor exception that when trailing whitespace is entered after the email the validation fails. I'm not sure if this is because of the regexp or a missing trim.
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Apr 23, 2007Using Regular Expressions (JavaScript 1.2/JScript 4+) :
String.prototype.lTrim =
function()
{
return this.replace(/^s+/,'');
}
String.prototype.lTrim =
function()
{
return this.replace(/s+$/,'');
}
String.prototype.trim =
function()
{
return this.replace(/^s+|s+$/g,'');
}
or for all versions (trims characters ASCII<32 not true
"whitespace"):
function LTrim(str) {
for (var k=0; k<str.length && str.charAt(k)<=" " ; k++) ;
return str.substring(k,str.length);
}
function RTrim(str) {
for (var j=str.length-1; j>=0 && str.charAt(j)<=" " ; j--) ;
return str.substring(0,j+1);
}
function Trim(str) {
return LTrim(RTrim(str));
}
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...363906a7353.asp
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/regexp.htm
RegEx In Javascript
Jul 23, 2005I have a function which validates the password if there is a number:
-------------------------------------------------
function findNumeric(str_obj){
regEx = /d/;
if (str_obj.match(regEx))
return true;
else
return false;
}
--------------------------------------------------
The problem arises when I put a password with a space in between e.g:
'test test1'. The fucntion returns false. I've tried 's' in the
regEx but the user can put the space anywhere..
Any idea how to solve this problem as I should be able to put any
alplanumeric value into the password, including space.
RegEx In Javascript?
Jul 23, 2005I have a variable named "acct". I first want to remove any "-" characters
from it's value. After this I want to verify that we have only exactly 12
digits in the variable.
Unfortunately I'm pretty green as far as using RegEx.
/d{12}/.test(acct); should do the second part, but how do I do the first?
Issues Getting And Regex'ing A Url
Jan 9, 2006Basically i want to get the current url, and then replace http:// with
something else.
Here is the current code.
var current_url = window.document.location;
var re = new RegExp("http://", "g");
if(re.test(current_url)) {
me = current_url.replace(re,"http://www.addme.com/");
window.alert("found :: " + me + " :: " + current_url);
} else {
window.alert("not");}
if my page was http://ww.google.com 'd get the alert to be:
found :: undefined :: http://www.google.com.
I dont understand why i am getting undefined. When re.test() works.
surely that means the regex is correct.
RegEx Question
Jun 15, 2006Trying to match the entire following object literal code using a RegEx.
var Punctuators = { '{' : 'LeftCurly', '}' : 'RightCurly' }
Variations on the idea of using /var.*{.*}/ of course stops at the
first }.
Space In REGEX In IE6
May 9, 2007I was using the following code:
element.value = element.value.replace(/ /g,'');
to remove all the spaces in a string.
However in IE6 it complained with and "Expected ')'" error.
How can I tell IE6 to replace just spaces (i.e. not using s)?
I tried / / and /[ ]/ but neither of them worked either.
Regex Help Needed
May 18, 2007I need to strip everything from a file except what is between <body>
and </body>
Regex Not Working In IE7 And 6?
Oct 13, 2009ok heres a regex
/^(?=.*d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]).{8,16}$/
which checks I have at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter and one number and the string is between 8 and 16 characters.I have adapted this from another source and it works as intended on all browsers but not IE7 or IE6 (oh microsoft why do you make my life so hard)This works fine in all other browsers (IE8 is fine) but doesnt work in IE6 or IE7
Divisions And Regex
Oct 23, 2005I'm writing an ECMAScript tokeniser and parser and trying to find out if I can eliminate the switching from tokenising "/" as start of regex or the division operator depending on the parser feedback - essentially, if I can make the tokeniser independent of the parser. (I have a gut feeling this needs too much special casing to be worth it). Code:
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Jun 27, 2010I have been playing with this regex for a few hours now I want to make it so it accepts commas also.
At the moment it works with A-z and - . ' but can't seem to figure out how to include commas.
Regex Fails In IE
Jun 21, 2011I have a bunch of text that I want to split into an array of sentences. I have the following code that works just fine on FF and Chromium, but ofc has to fail on the pile of *** that is IE [code]...
It does not produce any errors, but the resulting array often has empty strings as value instead of the sentences that should be there. how to do this in a way it also works on IE?