Myujth

I have a script that puts math questions (from a mySQL database) on a page. For instance

• Find 10% of 50


• Find 10% of 60


• Find 10% of 55

You get the idea.

I've written a script to avoid repeating the first word. It's overly long and complicated but I wrote it and I'm new to this and pretty proud that i did it.

Anyway, this script takes the first word and puts it in a variable called introtext.

I then am trying to take my questions and remove this introtext so it's not repeated

var q = q.replace(p1introtext,"");

This works really well when the value of introtext is something like 'simplify' 'find' or even a reasonably long sentence. However if the intro text contains html formatting like

<span class = "smaller">Find</span>

then the " are causing the program to ignore the replace function.

I do realize there is an element of bad database design here, but it's a big one and it will take ages to get rid of all the span tags, which are actually quite useful when using the questions in other formats.

I cannot just hide the .smaller class using css as it can also appear in bits of the question I want to display.

I'm really confused as to how I can work with this

You have to enclose your text in single quotes since you're using double quotes in your text.

q = '<span="someClass">aVariable</span>';

var q = '<span="someClass">aVariable</span>';
q = q.replace("aVariable", "");
console.log(q);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

try this one

var q = '<span="someClass">aVariable</span>';
q = q.replace("aVariable", "");
console.log(q);

Use backticks with template literals and aVariable is not a variable in your code, it's a string

var q = `<span="someClass">aVariable</span>`;
q = q.replace("aVariable", "a");

Working code