innerHTML: How To Avoid

Question

I\'m writing a plugin which will convert emoticons to images in a text block for a particular site. The easy answer is to use regular expressions to detect the trigger text

Answer 1

I'm not sure how to comment on other's posts but if you add a filter to @RobG response it will get you there. (PS: I did submit a code edit suggestion)

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var nodes = toArray(el.childNodes);

if (node.nodeName != "#text") //will allow embedded    etc to work.
   continue;

for (var i=0, iLen=nodes.length; ihere is a smily:) and another google two:):) italics

    ....

Or if you want to expressly look for certain elements to skip such as or or etc.