Find Container Tag

**Jas** · 05-21-2008, 03:06 PM

First of all, AHHHHHH! Okay, now that that is out of the way, lets continue.

I need to know how to create a JavaScript that will find out what and where the tag/tags is/are that contain the text "$body". For example:

Code:

    <html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <div>Hello</div>
    <div>$body</div>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Hi!</td>
            <td>Hello!</td>
            <td>$body</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
    </html>

The JavaScript would need to return a reference for the second div and the third td so that they can be manipulated.
Does all of that make sense?

I am not looking for actual code so much as direction (but if you feel compelled to write the script, I won't turn you down

). I am pretty competent at writing in JavaScript, but I've never done this before.

**Jas** · 05-21-2008, 06:30 PM

Stand by, I think I may have figured it out.

**boogyman** · 05-21-2008, 06:43 PM

you could do a indexOf() search to find the string, save it to a variable then grab the parent tag... however that will just tell you what type of tag it is, unless you a way to uniquely identify it from the rest of the tags surrounding it, it would be hard to replicate it unless you wanted to do that immediately.

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