How to replace given word in whole document in Jquery? [duplicate]

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I have word "john" used many times in my document which I want to replace with "mike". How can I achieve that using Jquery?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:31:11Z

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Something like that:

var replaced = $("body").html().replace(/John/g,'Mike');
$("body").html(replaced);

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answered Mar 9, 2016 at 20:00

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Monroy · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-09 19:43:51Z

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$("body").text(function () {
    return $(this).text().replace("john", "mike"); 
});

This would work if you need to change any text found in the body element.

answered Mar 9, 2016 at 19:43

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One problem with this, it will completely wipe out all the HTML within the body element...