Title: Replacing specific text with something else using JQuery.
Last modified: November 10, 2023

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# Replacing specific text with something else using JQuery.

 *  Resolved [michalrama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michalrama/)
 * (@michalrama)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-specific-text-with-something-else-using-jquery/)
 * Hello,
 * This is more of a code level question. I need to replace specific text.
 * It is the same on all pages, it is a **<span>** element and its parent element**
   <a>** always has the same URL. It could certainly be used to easily find this
   element.
 * How can I do this easily using JQuery please?
 * Thank you

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-specific-text-with-something-else-using-jquery/#post-17192377)
 * Something like:
    `$('a[href="https://example.com"] span').html("my new content");`(
   untested)
 * It’d be a lot easier if the span element had a unique identifying class name.
 * Having jQuery search through content for something in particular isn’t very efficient.
   Ideally the correct content would have been saved to start with. It’d be better
   to do a search and replace in the DB once than to do it every time a page is 
   served.
 *  Thread Starter [michalrama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michalrama/)
 * (@michalrama)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-specific-text-with-something-else-using-jquery/#post-17198659)
 * Hello [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Thank you. It works. To be precise, these are breadcrumbs that are generated 
   by the theme itself.
 * And the home page is showing as **HOME** not **DOMŮ**.
 * So thanks again, this code works, but still I wrote to the [theme support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-home-screen-language-for-breadcrumbs/)
   if it is possible to generate it directly in the correct language.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-specific-text-with-something-else-using-jquery/#post-17198659)
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