Looks like we posted at the exact same time! :] Correcting myself again: you should really use the regex, as the simple string replace is case-sensitive.
On Feb 11, 5:40 pm, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a simple Regular Expression (present in most programming > languages, not just JS) that does a case-insensitive (/i) for '.png' > at the end ($) of the string. > > See > here:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide/Regular_Ex... > > You might want to filter the img elements first, depending on how many > of those you have it could improve performance (better to test it). > > $("img[src$=.png]").each(... > and then use a simple string replace: .replace('.png', '.jpg'); //is > there any real chance of having ".png" in the middle of the filename? > > cheers, > - ricardo > > On Feb 11, 5:29 pm, -e-train <etrai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks James, > > > this seems to work well. > > > on the replace section, can you explain what this is doing? > > > /.png$/i, > > > i am not a javascript coder. it works, but i would like > > to understand what is going on. > > > cheers. > > -e- > > > On Feb 10, 6:14 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Un-tested, but maybe something like this: > > > > if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version == '6.0') { > > > $("img").each(function() { > > > var new_src = $(this).attr("src").replace(/.png$/i, '.jpg'); > > > $(this).attr("src", new_src); > > > }); > > > > } > > > > Note that $.browser is deprecated from jQuery 1.3, but still available > > > for use. > > > > On Feb 10, 3:26 pm, -e-train <etrai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > I am new to jQuery and am having a hard time figuring out what i am > > > > looking for in the docs an don this forum. > > > > > What i want to do is create a little jquery script that checks to see > > > > if the browser is msie and browser.version is 6.0 > > > > > I have that part done: > > > > > jQuery.each(jQuery.browser, function(i, val) { > > > > if(i=="msie" && jQuery.browser.version.substr(0,3)=="6.0") { > > > > } > > > > } > > > > > }); > > > > > I was able to display an alert. cool. > > > > > now what I would like to do is if the above is true and the agent is > > > > msie 6.0 > > > > > then i want to find all <img> tags that have a src="some-image.png" > > > > and replace the ".png" with ".jpg" > > > > > i think i need to use the [attribute$=value] selector. > > > > and then write something that is the equivalent of > > > > if ("img[source$='png']") > > > > then replace ("img[source$='png']") with ("img[source$='jpg']") > > > > > but i don't know how to write javascript very well... > > > > > any help is appreciated. > > > > cheers, > > > > -e-
