Find soft hyphens in HTML document

Question

Let's look at following code:

$('#el').html('ex&shy;am&shy;ple');

Now, how can I get back that element's text with soft hyphens entities? Both of these:

$('#el').html();
$('#el').contents().get(0).nodeValue;

gives me "example" as return value, not "example"

jsFiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/w7QKH/

Browser: FF7, not checked in other browsers.

in b4 `$('#el').html('example');` – BoltClock Nov 12 '11 at 17:04 — BoltClock, Nov 12 '11 at 17:04

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '11 at 16:58

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Actually $('#el').html() gives you 'example' with soft hyphens. If you run $('#el').html().length it will return 9. So hyphens are in, but they are not displayed. And it is not equal 'example' , because this string is not escaped. If you want to compare to string you should use 'ex\u00ADam\u00ADple'- here I replaced  with its unicode value. http://jsfiddle.net/w7QKH/1/

answered Nov 12 '11 at 16:58

welldan97

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Big ups! Been pulling my hair here! <3 – Linus Jäderlund Jun 21 '16 at 10:35

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '11 at 16:57

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$('#el').html().replace(/\u00AD/g, '');

See http://jsfiddle.net/K9mUy/

answered Nov 12 '11 at 16:57

Alohci

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Find soft hyphens in HTML document

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