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rated 0 times [ 29] [ 7] / answers: 1 / hits: 19990 / 9 Years ago, fri, april 24, 2015, 12:00:00

I'm looking to replace a bad character that a content editable div uses when a space is added at the end of the input.

Here is what I've tried

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

text.replace(/u00A0/,  );

But when I check the value of the last character like this

text.charCodeAt(text.length-1)

The value is still 160 instead of 32

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answered 9 Years ago darennevina · Accepted Answer

In javascript strings are immutable and replace return new string, try this:

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

text = text.replace(/u00A0/, " ");

or in one line:

var text = $(this).text().replace(/u00A0/, " ");

also if you want to replace all instances of the character, you need to add g flag to the regex /u00A0/g.