Change the color of a text in div using jquery contains

Question

Here the whole text inside the div get\'s red color. but I need only the \"bar\" word color to be changed

Answer 1

Solution with code snippet..

var text_change = 'bar';
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("div:contains('"+text_change+"')").each(function () {
        var regex = new RegExp(text_change,'gi');
        $(this).html($(this).text().replace(regex, ""+text_change+""));
    });
});

.red {
    color:#008000;
}

this is a new bar and bar.