Find and replace in a webpage using javascript.

Question

What I want to do is replace all instances of 'foo' in a webpage with 'bar' in a JS bookmarklet/greasemonkey script. How can I do this? I suppose jQuery works, as there're hacks to include those in both bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts.

Answer 1

var els = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for(var i = 0, l = els.length; i < l; i++) {
  var el = els[i];
  el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML.replace(/foo/gi, 'bar');
}