Simply tag-based highlighting with Javascript
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Hello,
I got this code which works:
<html>
<head>
<title>JS highlighting test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function highlight()
{
var t = document.getElementById('highlight').innerHTML;
t = t.replace(/(if|switch|for|while)\s*(\()/gi, "<b>$1</b>$2");
document.getElementById('highlight').innerHTML = t;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="javascript:highlight();">
<pre id="highlight">
1 if(foo) {
2 bar();
3 }
4
3 while(--baz) {
5 oof();
6 }
</pre>
</body>
</html>
I would like to have it for all <pre> tags instead of just one with some specific and
unique id as it works now. The best would be to have an combination of a specific tag
with a specific id. Is it possible to extend the small JS function above to work this
way (using some document.getElementsByTag(tag).getElementsById(id).innerHTML or
something alike (I don't know what exactly suites the need) in a loop? I tried myself but with no real success. I need only as simple solution as possible, nothing really special.
Thank you for your ideas.
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nkd
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