Use jQuery to find and replace multiple words on the page

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Find and Replace more than 1 word?

I want to use jQuery to replace all instances of specific words. For example, I want to replace "My Classes" to "My Levels" and "My Class" to "My Level". I also want to change "college" to "university"

Searching this forum gave me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349446/jquery-find-and-replace-text-after-body-was-loaded and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349138/jquery-find-and-replace-text-without-element-id — papkass, Mar 28 '12 at 13:39
I've tried other examples, but they all just replace one word (X with Y) and I have need to replace multiple sets of words (X with Y, A with B, 1 with 2, etc) — Nate Allen, Mar 28 '12 at 13:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '12 at 13:50

You may try something like this:

var dictionary= {
"My Classes":"My Levels",
"My Class":"My Level",
"college":"university"
};

$("body *").each( function(){
    for( var ptrn in dictionary){
        $(this).text( $(this).text().replace(new RegExp(ptrn ,"g"), dictionary[ptrn] ) );
    }
});

Use jQuery to find and replace multiple words on the page

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