Hi, I'm looking for a way to search the generated source of a webpage ( document.innerHTML) for a string, in javascript.
I wouldn't want to use window.find() since i might have to look for id's or names too.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Will match elements based on the limited set of conditions that can be expressed with selectors. It won't match strings.
David Dorward
2010-03-05 09:56:56
+2
A:
document.innerHTML is undefined
var source = document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;
var found = source.search("searchString");
N 1.1
2010-03-05 09:01:11
this definitely works for a normal string. But, when you have to search something like id="'myId'" , this doesnt seem to work.
kambamsu
2010-03-05 09:33:56
kambamsu - please don't use innerHTML to search for HTML. Use the DOM! That's what it's meant for...
J-P
2010-03-05 09:37:44
@J-P: Kambansu wants to search everything, including ids, classes, attributes. It can be done using DOM, but that would be complex huh?
N 1.1
2010-03-05 09:58:59
@kambamsu, if you're searching for id="myId" then you have to escape the string, or switch the quotes. Html requires the doubles quotes. So your search string would have to look like "id=\"myId\""
David Archer
2010-03-05 10:20:53