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POWrap innerText in a HTML tag without affecting anything in else innerHTML
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    copied!<p>Sorry about the really crap title, it's difficult to explain. A simplified version... I have the following markup:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://www.someurl.com/product/collection"&gt;&lt;span class="collection"&gt;View&lt;/span&gt; this collection today.&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now, what i'm trying to end up with is the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://www.someurl.com/product/collection"&gt;&lt;span class="collection"&gt;View&lt;/span&gt; this &lt;span class="someClass"&gt;collection&lt;/span&gt; today.&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>And I can mostly do this with the following:</p> <pre><code>var $el = $('a'); var newHTML = $el.html().replace(/collection/g, '&lt;span class="someClass"&gt;collection&lt;/span&gt;'); $el.html(newHTML); </code></pre> <p>The problem is though, we end up with:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://www.someurl.com/product/collection"&gt;&lt;span class="&lt;span class="someClass"&gt;collection&lt;/span&gt;"&gt;View&lt;/span&gt; this &lt;span class="someClass"&gt;collection&lt;/span&gt; today.&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>Which obviously isn't what I want... Am I going about this arse about face? Should I be doing this a different way?</p> <p>This is a very simple example, the word might be something other than "collection" and might appear multiple times within the elements text. I have also tried using $.text() but the span tags get escaped, as you would expect, and appear as the text "collection".</p> <p>What am I missing?</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>I have edited the examples as they were completely wrong and not what I was asking about at all! Sorry!</p>
 

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