add simple emdash replacement regex example

76659db4 · julien · fcd805b9 · 76659db4
Commit 76659db4 authored Jan 03, 2019 by julien
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+++ b/smartQuotes/index.html
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
        }
    </style>

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 <!-- call the paged.js polyfill -->
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/pagedjs/dist/paged.polyfill.js"></script>

@@ -34,6 +37,17 @@
            beforeParsed(content) {
                console.log(content);
                smartquotes(content);
+
+                // replace the dash using regex
+                var regexCapital = /--/g;
+                // look for all element inside the body
+                var dash = document.querySelectorAll("body *");
+                // for each of those elements
+                dash.forEach(element => {
+                    // replace ` -- ` with `&mdash;` 
+                    element.innerHTML = element.innerHTML.replace(regexCapital, '&mdash;')
+                })
+
            }
        }
        // register the hook: 
@@ -45,5 +59,6 @@

 <body>
    <h1>"smartquote" and “key pressed smartquotes”</h1>
-    <p>"smartquote" and “ key pressed smartquotes”</p>
+    <p>"smartquote" and 'key pressed smartquotes'</p>
+    <p>em "dash" -- 'key pressed smartquotes'</p>
 </body>
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