Need help with find and replace coding

[RickGervs]

Hi,

So I'm kind of new to JavaScript and I need to create a script that will grab the code I paste in a HTML page and do a few find and replace

When I use this code

test1 = text.replace(/test1/, "<abbr>test_new1</abbr>");
document.getElementById('input_output').value = test1;

it works for but as soon as I add another line like this

test1 = text.replace(/test1/, "<abbr>test_new1</abbr>");
document.getElementById('input_output').value = test1;

test2 = text.replace(/test2/, "<abbr>test_new2</abbr>");
document.getElementById('input_output').value = test2;

it doesn't work for some reason.

It's very unfortunate because I need to do this like 30-40 times.

I included my file so it'll be easier for you.

This is just a small application to help my team internally it's nothing that'll go online

Thanks!!!!!!!

[Philip M]

<div id = "input_output"> Here is test1 and also test2</div>

<script type = "text/javascript">
var text = document.getElementById("input_output").innerHTML;
var reptext =  text.replace(/\btest1\b/, "<abbr>test_new1</abbr>");
reptext = reptext.replace(/\btest2\b/, "<abbr>test_new2</abbr>");
alert (reptext);  
document.getElementById('input_output').innerHTML = reptext;
</script

If the text is in a textarea then you want to replace .innerHTML with .value

Note the \b tags indicating a word boundary (whole words only).

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[RickGervs]

Wow this is exactly what I needed thank you very much!!

[Philip M]

Glad to hear it! You may wish to add g and i flags to make the replace global (not just the first instance) and case-insensitive.

<script type = "text/javascript">
var text = document.getElementById("input_output").innerHTML;
var reptext =  text.replace(/\btest1\b/gi, "<abbr>test_new1</abbr>");
reptext = reptext.replace(/\btest2\b/gi, "<abbr>test_new2</abbr>");
alert (reptext);  
document.getElementById('input_output').innerHTML = reptext;
</script>

[RickGervs]

That's exactly what I did, thanks again, much appreciated