Change the color of a text in div using jquery contains

Question

Here the whole text inside the div get\'s red color. but I need only the \"bar\" word color to be changed

Answer 1

Could be done like that:

http://jsfiddle.net/PELkt/

var search = 'bar';
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("div:contains('"+search+"')").each(function () {
        var regex = new RegExp(search,'gi');
        $(this).html($(this).text().replace(regex, ""+search+""));
    });
});