Can you ignore HTML in a string while doing a Replace with jQuery? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Parsing HTML with a regular expression? This isn't a good idea. I would suggest inserting the HTML into the DOM and then traversing the nodes.

Answer 2

Yes, take a look at the following forum post:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1443955.aspx

The RegEx pattern you are looking for would be something similar to the following:

"(?<!<[^>]*)Jon Doe(?<![^>]*<)"

Basically, you're doing a search and replace on anything that lives outside brackets <>.

JavaScript:

phrase = phrase.replace(/"(?<!<[^>]*)Jon Doe(?<![^>]*<)" /i, "is not");