jQuery if div contains this text, replace that part of the text

Question

Like the title says, I want to replace a specific part of the text in a div.

The structure looks like this:

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Answer 1

You can use the contains selector to search for elements containing a specific text

var elem = $('div.text_div:contains("This div contains some text")')​;
elem.text(elem.text().replace("contains", "Hello everyone"));

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