Awesome thanks that works, but not in ie7?
Michael Geary-3 wrote:
>
> If the word "anything" is just part of the text inside the div, then it
> doesn't have a DOM element (tag) of its own. This means you can't select
> it
> with a jQuery selector or any kind of DOM manipulation, and you can't
> apply
> a CSS style to it.
>
> What you can do is rewrite the HTML content of your DIV element.
>
> If you know for sure that there is only a single DIV with
> class="tpSurveyQuestion", then it's simple:
>
> var $question = $('.tpSurveyQuestion');
> $question.html(
> $question.html().replace( 'anything', 'anything' )
> );
>
> If there may be multiple DIVs that match that selector, you need to handle
> each one individually:
>
> $('.tpSurveyQuestion').each( function() {
> var $question = $(this);
> $question.html(
> $question.html().replace( 'anything', 'anything' )
> );
> });
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Rua <ra2a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi I'm trying to select a specific word inside a div and would like to
>> bold
>> it, I can't seem to find how to do this anywhere!
>>
>> $(".tpSurveyQuestion:contains('anything')").css("font-weight","bold");
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