How to return part of string before a certain character?

Question

If you look at the jsfiddle from question,

var str = \"Abc: Lorem ipsum sit amet\";
str = str.substring(str.indexOf(\":\") + 1);

This retur

Answer 1

You fiddle already does the job ... maybe you try to get the string before the double colon? (you really should edit your question) Then the code would go like this:

str.substring(0, str.indexOf(":"));

Where 'str' represents the variable with your string inside.

Click here for JSFiddle Example

Javascript

var input_string = document.getElementById('my-input').innerText;
var output_element = document.getElementById('my-output');

var left_text = input_string.substring(0, input_string.indexOf(":"));

output_element.innerText = left_text;

Html

  
Input:
  Left Text:Right Text
  
Output:
  XXX

CSS

body { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color:#555; }
h5 { margin-bottom: 0.8em; }
strong {
  width:90%;
  padding: 0.5em 1em;
  background-color: cyan;
}
#my-output { background-color: gold; }