Iterating through text in p tag kills all html that was in the p tag

I am using this jquery code to to look inside a

tag and replace the word image with a span tag wrapped around it. The problem is my code is killing any other html thats in the <p> tag.

Here is my code

$('p').each(
   function() {
       var text = $(this).text();
       var spanText = text.replace('image', '<span class="bText">image</span>');
       $(this).html(spanText);
   }
);

H开发者_JAVA技巧ere is html before its applied

<p>
I have an image.
<br>
There is a link <a target="_blank" href="https://mysite.com">mylink</a>
     </p> 

After jquery

<p>I have an <span class="bText">image</span>. There is a link mylink </p>

Use html() ^[docs] instead:

var text = $(this).html();

text() ^[docs], as the name suggests, only gets the text content, no HTML tags.

Further information:

If you pass a string to replace ^[docs], only the first occurrence of that string will be replaced. If you want to replace all occurrences, you need a regular expression ^[docs] with the global flag.

Your code could be shortened to (requires jQuery 1.4):

$('p').html(function(i, html) {
    return html.replace(/image/g, '<span class="bText">image</span>');
    // or /\bimage\b/g if you e.g. don't want to match `preimage`
});

//mine from scratch - works in chrome, ie, and firefox
$("p").each(function(){
    var html = $(this).html();
    var newHtml = html.replace("image","<span style='font-weight:bold;'>image</span>");
    $(this).html(newHtml);
});
//end

in your code change

var text = $(this).text();

for

var text = $(this).html();

hope this helps.