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		xutopia on July 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replacing text in the DOM… solved? I did something similar as a jQuery plugin here: https://github.com/garyharan/jquery-replace-utilities

padolsey on July 5, 2012 [–]

This doesn't solve the cross-element-boundary problem though. If a match starts in one element but ends in another this plugin doesn't seem to replace it at all.

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