Replacing nbsp from javascript dom text node

Question

I am processing xhtml using javascript  I am getting the text content for a div node by concatenating the nodeValue of all child nodes where nodeType    Node TEXT NODE   The resulting string sometimes contains a non-breaking space entity  How do I replace this with a regular space character   My div looks like this         lt div gt  lt b gt Expires On lt  b gt  Sep 30  2009 06 30 amp nbsp AM lt  div gt    The following suggestions found on the web did not work   var cleanText   text replace    xa0     xa0    xa0   g        var cleanText   replaceHtmlEntities text    var replaceHtmlEntites    function       var translate re     amp  nbsp amp quot lt gt   g    var translate          nbsp             amp      amp         quot              lt       lt         gt       gt          return function s        return   s replace translate re  function match  entity          return translate entity                         Any suggestions

User · Answer

That first line is pretty messed up  It only needs to be   var cleanText   text replace   xA0 g         That should be all you need

User · Answer

I think when you define a function with  var foo   function            the function is only defined after that line   In other words  try this   var replaceHtmlEntites    function       var translate re     amp  nbsp amp quot lt gt   g    var translate          nbsp             amp      amp         quot              lt       lt         gt       gt          return function s        return   s replace translate re  function match  entity          return translate entity                        var cleanText   text replace    xa0     xa0    xa0   g      cleanText   replaceHtmlEntities text     Edit  Also  only use  var  the first time you declare a variable  you re using it twice on the cleanText variable    Edit 2   The problem is the spelling of the function name   You have  var replaceHtmlEntites      It should be  var replaceHtmlEntities

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i used this  and it worked   var cleanText   text replace   amp amp nbsp  g

User · Answer

for me replace doesn t work    try this code   str   str split   amp quot    join

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Removes everything between  amp  and   which all such symbols have  if you juts want to get rid of them    text replace   amp     g

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var text     amp quot  amp nbsp  amp amp  amp lt  amp gt    text   text replaceHtmlEntites     String prototype replaceHtmlEntites   function     var s   this  var translate re     amp  nbsp amp quot lt gt   g  var translate     nbsp        amp      amp    quot         lt       lt    gt       gt     return   s replace translate re  function match  entity      return translate entity              try this     this worked for me

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This is much easier than you re making it  The text node will not have the literal string   amp nbsp   in it  it ll have have the corresponding character with code 160   function replaceNbsps str      var re   new RegExp String fromCharCode 160    g      return str replace re           textNode nodeValue   replaceNbsps textNode nodeValue     UPDATE  Even easier   textNode nodeValue   textNode nodeValue replace   u00a0 g

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If you only need to replace  amp nbsp  then you can use a far simpler regex   var textWithNBSpaceReplaced   originalText replace   amp nbsp  g         Also  there is a typo in your div example  it says  amp nnbsp  instead of  amp nbsp

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